Valerie Plame, Nude! [Was today's Slate article inspired by a FR poster?]

Slate ^ | Wednesday, July 6, 2005 | Timothy Noah

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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.

[pissant]

I think you misinterpreted Ms. Dasher's intent

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Re your post #36 re Byron York - see my post #70 re Byron York.

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Re your post #41 - There, Picasso's "Nude Descending A Staicase" should cover you. :-)

Very nice of you to post that. Thank you! :)

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Breaking: Cooper has agreed to testify. I called it this morning on another thread!

I really hope this whole things ends soon, and the prosecutor tells us all what's been up. Matt Cooper was reported to have a number of sources in his notes, and I am finding it hard to believe it was Karl Rove whom Cooper was protecting -- since Rove already signed off on a waiver releasing all the reporters fron confidentiality agreements.

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....and is the leaker of his wife's name to the media idiots who would rather go to jail than expose this canard.

I am wondering if Wilson leaked it to a reporter - who then leaked it to others. Maybe Wilson leaked it to Jeff Gannon in his interview with Gannon? I am just guessing here. But the WA Post link I posted above is now saying a reporter, not a government official, may have been the source of the leak.

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re your post #52 - Thanks for posting those links.

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re your post #53 - That was mentioned by cyncooper via the Victoria Toensign WA Post article he linked to on another thread. She co-wrote the subject federal law and her article, published awhile ago, said it didn't apply in this case to Valeria Plame because Plame did not live overseas for five years, as required by that law. Maybe the prosecutor is really going under another law.

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Re your post #57 - LOL....because you may be right! :)

[Dashing Dasher]

What are talking about?

Newbie? First post had nothing to do ...


Oh.. nevermind - too much work ....

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Re your post #58 - If that was the only type of photo they'd ever allowed published in the media, then I would more inclined to believe her claim that she wants privacy! And considers herself covert! :)

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LOL...I'm just reading what you wrote on the thread. If you intended some secret message to your pal, well, I can't read your mind! :)

[Dashing Dasher]

You just seem to be looking for a fight tonight - and I'm not interested.

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Re your post #68 - see post #53.

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ROTFLMAO....you werre right the first time -- it's too much work talking to you! Never mind!

[pepperdog]

That man has shifty eyes.

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For the latest on this matter, check out posts #56 and #70.

[Uri’el-2012]

http://www.hawaii.edu/lruby/art101/IMAGES/NUDE.GIF

Marshal DuChamp painted the "nude decending a staircase"

http://www.beatmuseum.org/duchamp/nude2.html

http://www.idiom.com/~wcs/duchamp.html

[torchthemummy]

"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.

In no way advocating this but unless Wilson is a philanderer, anyone could violate their "private security" by looking for the woman he tends to always hang out with. My guess would be Valerie herself.

Then again if he got caught with another woman he could claim she was, for "private security" considerations for his wife, using a curvy decoy.

[Dashing Dasher]

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LOL...you're right, but I never thought of it that way before. :)