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.
There, Picasso's "Nude Descending A Staicase" should cover you. :-)
I'm curious as to what significance a former low level diplomat and his former CIA wife have with a film festival or the entertainment industry in general?
I guess I'm hopeless when it comes to understanding the celebrity culture.
Breaking: Cooper has agreed to testify. I called it this morning on another thread!
Oh, they were going to be the instruments to bring down the Bush administration, doncha know.
This made them attractive to the libs---maybe screenplays ala "All the President's Men" were already being crafted.
LOL
I'll say it again: Joe Wilson fancies himself to be James Angleton, but he doesn't have the class OR the breeding.
....and is the leaker of his wife's name to the media idiots who would rather go to jail than expose this canard.
What #42 said, and Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferer extraordinaire and brain-dead fop Graydon Carter was leading the pack. Hence all the attention in the now unreadable Vanity Fair. VF slobbered all over Richard Clarke too, right before the 9-11 Commission outed him as a liar.
What was her job as a CIA agent?
Infiltrating Saks? She looks like
she should be doing "stop/loss" for
Neiman Marcus.
LOL. Probably a more hazardous assignment than she ever had with the Agency where I'd guess her role was picking up gossip from spouses at Embassy parties.
>>>Breaking: Cooper has agreed to testify. I called it this morning on another thread!
Only because the source said it was ok to reveal...
If you want to believe that. I am well aware that's what he said, but you do know he has more than one source, right?
Cooper caved before in the face of jail and I correctly predicted he would buckle again (and for this I'm pleased).
Mission to Niger
Robert Novak
July 14, 2003
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/printrn20030714.shtml
The CIA leak
Robert Novak
October 1, 2003
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml
Novak Recuses Self from CIA Leak Probe
Posted by Scott Ott
December 31, 2003
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001463.html
Judge Upholds Media Subpoenas in CIA Leak Case (PLAME/WILSON)
Reuters | August 9, 2004 | James Vicini
Posted on 08/09/2004 12:30:56 PM PDT by cyncooper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1188136/posts
Court Holds Reporter in Contempt in Leak Case (WILSON/PLAME)
Washington Post | August 9, 2004 | Carol D. Leonnig
Posted on 08/09/2004 12:37:45 PM PDT by cyncooper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1188142/posts
She's pretty hot.
of course, there was no reason to worry that HE, joe wilson, the squealer, would be identified by some wacko on the street. how much sense does THAT make, considering that supposedly the super sleuth valerie plame who shuns the camera did NOTHING to warrant public attention other than to be married to HIM, THE SQUEALER.
Plame & Wilson at a Clinton festivity.
"My wife has made it very clear that -- she has authorized me to say this -- she would rather chop off her right arm than say anything to the press and she will not allow herself to be photographed," he declared in October on "Meet the Press."
Judge Hogan noted that "the government's focus has shifted as it has acquired additional information during the course of the investigation" and "now needs to pursue different avenues in order to complete its investigation."
Wilson's publisher, Carroll & Graf, retained Russ Hoyle -- an investigative reporter who has been a senior editor at the New York Daily News, Time magazine, and the New Republic - to do what it might be inappropriate for Wilson himself to do: look into the government's investigation of the leak of his wife's identity.
Hoyle's report - included in the paperback edition of the book - notes that "There is little question that the investigation of the White House leaks is now hostage to Fitzgerald's campaign to force Cooper and Miller to testify."
Hoyle writes that Washington Post reporter Walter "Pincus, for example, reportedly confirmed the time, date, and length of his conversation with a source…, but Pincus would not reveal his or her identity."
Hoyle continues, "That lent credence to reports that Fitzgerald had subpoenaed records of every contact that White House personnel had had with reporters during the period in question and was engaged in a meticulous search to match such times and dates with records of meetings and telephone calls between reporters and Bush officials gleaned from calendars and telephone logs."
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