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Plame Tells Tale of Betrayal in New Memoir

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Posted on Oct 20, 2007
Valerie Plame
washingtontimes.com

In her new memoir, former CIA officer Valerie Plame tells of her shock as the Bush administration presented evidence in 2003 that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction—“I knew key parts of it were wrong,” she says—as well as her take on her outing as a CIA employee.


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She and her colleagues, she wrote, believed that Saddam Hussein was hiding chemical and biological weapons, which she feared would be used against U.S. troops. But there was scant evidence to support those concerns, and she was certain that the president and his aides were publicly exaggerating the nuclear threat posed by Iraq at the time.

“What we struggled so hard to obtain was much too thin and not nearly robust enough to start a war over,” she asserts in “Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House.” The book, published by Simon & Schuster, is scheduled to go on sale Monday.

The title refers to a comment attributed to Karl Rove, who during his tenure as a White House adviser reportedly told a journalist that “Joe Wilson’s wife is fair game” for a White House intent on discrediting the former ambassador. He became a target after he publicly revealed that he had investigated, on behalf of the CIA, reports that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger. A year after he reported that there was no evidence to support the claim, it appeared in Bush’s State of the Union speech, two months before the president ordered troops into Iraq.

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By Douglas Chalmers, October 23, 2007 at 9:53 am #

#108613 by Hammo on 10/21 at 8:24 am: “...being the attractive and apparently dedicated and honorable intelligence professional we see, allows many of us to relate to a “spook” in ways we might not have thought about before….”

Found it! Her ‘day job’ for the CIA…... operative codenamed “Houida”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W2w4VdN3P4

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By lawlessone, October 22, 2007 at 2:26 pm #
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I’m sorry.  What were you saying?  I got dazzled by the photo and couldn’t concentrate on anything you said.

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By Inherit The Wind, October 22, 2007 at 11:11 am #
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But, but, but…..

Clinton lied about a blow job!

Isn’t that worse than:
Lying about catching security breaches?
Creating a security breach?
Starting a war for your ego?
Getting hundred of thousands killed for no good reason?
Bankrupting the nation?
Destroying the Constitution?
Gutting ALL environmental controls?
Building a private army answerable to no one?
and all the other fascist BS Bush has brought?

EVERYBODY knows lying about a blowjob is worse than all that!

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By Neese, October 22, 2007 at 10:16 am #

This is the only administration that has managed to get the liberals to back and support a CIA operative.

Good work Georgie!

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By socks, October 22, 2007 at 9:35 am #

We see dailey how this administration pushes the media button to spread their propaganda and obviewscate news that is vital to our national interests, for the good of international mega monopolies.

Hardly a better obvious missuse of power and threat and intimidation is illustrated in the case of Valerie Plame Wilson.

I don’t know if Fitsgerald was bought off or threatened, but he failed as a prosecutor, and refused to go after the dark master he knows is behind this treasonous criminal act against our nation.

Any citizen that thinks our governance is using its institutions to protect us are utterly dillusional.

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By hippy pam, October 22, 2007 at 8:00 am #

Who said"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”???My Grandfather said"Give a small person power and that person WILL misuse and abuse it”...We have allowed an uneducated and small minded person with delusions of grandeur to hold a power position.This person is no better than Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein…They MISUSED their position and SO DOES BUSH*T.He will be REMEMBERED for ENDING THE WORLD IF HE IS NOT STOPPED…..

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By Margaret Currey, October 22, 2007 at 3:04 am #
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The evil that is in the WH is that of Chaney, he seems to be the person in charge of the puppet.

I knew that the election of Bush was wrong but when you see that he cannot even use proper English I wonder how he got to college.

I believe Ms Plame was undercover and somehow the administration has the power to declasificy information when they see fit and to clasify information that is not important but would put their history in a bad light, and I think a lot of people know that this administration is a sham.

Shame that the “I” word is not in use like it was during the Clinton Administration, because after all a moral offense is the worst of all at least in the minds of Republicians just remember that tapping one’s foot in a mens room is worse than that of stealing millions of tax dollars.

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By JimM72, October 21, 2007 at 3:00 pm #
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Cheney should have been impeached for this crime alone, never mind all of the countless other violations of the Constitution he has allowed and encouraged. God only knows what he and his minions continue to hide.

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By mark, October 21, 2007 at 1:08 pm #
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The WH spin masters are out in full force again saying Armitage was the only leaker, and that it was all a joke between Armitage and Bob Woodward. To believe the spin you must swallow this whole.
1. Don’t believe testimony from the trial that Rove and Libby were leaking her name.
2. Don’t believe she was a covered agent although her boss the CIA said so.
3. Do believe that Armitage was an outed centrist. Erase his ties to PNAC and Iraq invasion please.
4. Don’t believe Prosecutor Fitzgerald when he said the treason investigation was hampered by widespread WH obstruction.

To believe any of this you must be more than a ditto head, you must be entirely corrupt and delusional.

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By Hammo, October 21, 2007 at 12:24 pm #

The case of Valerie Plame Wilson and her “blown cover” remind us that there is quite a mix of people working for the US Government — people who retain honor and want to do the right thing, and those who have gone over to “the dark side.”

This seems to be true of elected officials, bureaucrats, military personnel and intelligence officers.

Plame Wilson, being the attractive and apparently dedicated and honorable intelligence professional we see, allows many of us to relate to a “spook” in ways we might not have thought about before.

She has allowed us to put ourselves in the shoes of an intel officer ... which might be helpful. After all, in some ways, we are all “intelligence agents” of a sort, and agents of intelligence.

Thoughts on this in the article ...

“Gathering intelligence: Grassroots intel by and for the people”

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=19777

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By Lee, October 21, 2007 at 11:40 am #
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For there to be TRUE JUSTICE in America, accountability and punishment must be equally applied to ALL ... especially those at the top ... but, when it comes to elected leaders who are guardians of the public trust, their betrayal is unconscionable and can harm the most people, so their punishment should be the most severe!

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By Douglas Chalmers, October 21, 2007 at 10:34 am #

Oh, the evil things that the USA has to fear in the Middle East!!! Well, lets see where “she is hiding her weapons of mass destruction”..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyesYrQM_J4&mode=related&search=Aashiyaana troupe practice

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