Very possible. I haven’t seen a lot of Val-J. What little I have seen, she appears to have some smarts.
Is being a handler the same a being a fluffer ?
I’ve read her book “Finding My Voice - My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward”...and she is smart...it’s a decent read. The book does do a gloss over or totally ignores of some stuff and it is mostly a memoir of her WH years.
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Methinks this is going a little too light and fluffy on
that nasty, cunning, irani spy-traitor.