Well, without sunglasses and a scarf, anyway.
By Timothy Noah, Slate
Posted Wednesday, July 6, 2005, at 7:40 AM PT
Plame reveals herself in the madding media
crowd. [3rd photo down, on right]
Posted on 07/06/2005 10:19:59 AM PDT by summer
Valerie Plame, Nude!
Well, without sunglasses and a scarf, anyway.
By Timothy Noah, Slate
Posted Wednesday, July 6, 2005, at 7:40 AM PT
Plame reveals herself in the madding media
crowd. [3rd photo down, on right]
Valerie Plame's career in the Central Intelligence Agency was destroyed by whoever leaked her name to Robert Novak, and that is a terrible wrong. If we ever find out who the leaker is, the president must fire him. (Or them.) That said, I'm starting to weary of the story line that Plame avoids the media spotlight. "She has guarded her privacy" and "shunned publicity," Scott Shane wrote in the July 5 New York Times. That was true once, but it isn't true now. Shane pointed out a glaring exception late in 2003, when Plame "posed with her husband for a Vanity Fair photographer, wearing sunglasses and with a scarf over her blond hair." On Jan. 5, 2004, her husband, Joe Wilson, was quoted telling Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post that there was no remaining national-security reason to continue hiding Plame's face, since her cover was "completely blown." Then why the scarf and sunglasses? "She had to be clothed as generic blonde in order to deal with the genuine concern that some wacko on the street might easily identify her," Wilson explained. "It was just in the interest of personal security." Wilson repeated the need for this precaution in his memoir, The Politics of Truth:
She had already been described as the beautiful blond that she is, and her cover had long since been blown, so the only concern remaining was whether strangers would be able to use a photo to recognize her in public. With proper precautions taken, I saw no reason to deprive ourselves of the pleasure of being photographed together as the happily married couple that we are.
Fair enough. But on Page 70 of the July 2005 Vanity Fair—the one with Nicole Kidman on the cover and Mark Felt's Deep Throat confession inside—there's a photograph of the happy couple at Vanity Fair's party celebrating the Tribeca Film Festival. No scarf and no sunglasses. Plame, seated, is smiling and leaning into the camera. If you're a wacko on the street, please avert your eyes.
LOL...thanks for your nice photo on this thread. However, that is not Valerie Plame, FYI.
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what SHE meant (dasher is a chick, I think). But she generally only throws insults at me, so I'm assuming she did not mean to slam you. :)
Well, THAT was useful information! Thanks. :)
Question for all you car/car forensic experts (this might be easy if they revealed the fact in the VF article): what car is Joe "I-Was-in-Niger-And-I-Know-There-Was-No-Nuke-Ingredients-There" Wilson and The Plamer posing in?
Hmmmm, that certainly makes more sense than a NYT reporter going to jail to protect Karl Rove. I mean, c'mon.
Back during the Things admin, there were numerous stories about how Klinton LOVED to talk about how he wanted to be a CIA agent. He even hinted that the Mena airport drug thing was a CIA op he was in on.
I bet he really loved getting a BJ from a real CIA person(sarc)
I know. Pretty worthless. LOL.
No, I'm sorry, but that is not Valerie Plame either. Good night!
Re your post #110 - No, I was serious. That really was more useful than these photos Dasher is posting on this thread!
Dasher is the non-sequitir queen!
Can somebody tell me how it could ever be proven that this isn't
the case of legs without a story. Working in Southern Virginia
doesn't make one a spy. The CIA isn't going to confirm that
"Jane Blonde" just had her cover broken. I know someone who's
wife once worked for the NSA. He got a rather macho trip from
it but she wasn't a spy after all either.
Why does this man still get away with this self-interested farce?
"Nude Descending a Staircase" is by Marcel DuChamp
See.... there are art lovers on FR"
Am not.
You is, dolly!
Love me anyway?
;-)
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