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Ex-C.I.A. Officer in New Book Talks (PLAME BOOK DEAL BOMBING)
NY Times ^ | 6-1-06 | MOTOKO RICH

Posted on 06/01/2006 9:56:36 PM PDT by STARWISE

The $2.5 million book deal that Valerie Plame Wilson, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer whose identity was publicly disclosed three years ago, negotiated with Crown Publishing Group last month has fallen through.

Ms. Wilson, who could not agree on terms with Crown, is now in exclusive negotiations with Simon & Schuster, which originally had lost an auction for the book to Crown.

Although no contract has yet been signed with Simon & Schuster, David Rosenthal, the publisher, said, "We are optimistic about these talks."

When Crown announced the deal last month, Steve Ross, senior vice president and publisher, said the book had a working title of "Fair Game" and would be published in the fall of 2007. He said at the time that the book would be the "first airing of her actual role in the American intelligence community, as well as the prominence of her role in the lead-up to the war."

Yesterday, Tina Constable, a spokeswoman at Crown, said, "We had a difference of opinion on some of the contract terms, and we agreed to release each other from any publishing obligations."

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cia; cialeak; plame; spies; spooks; undercover; wilson
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Karma ... it's so fascinating.
1 posted on 06/01/2006 9:56:41 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: SE Mom; the Real fifi; Enchante; backhoe; A Citizen Reporter; AliVeritas; alnick; AmericaUnited; ...

Plame funny PING!


2 posted on 06/01/2006 9:57:18 PM PDT by STARWISE (((They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL autho)
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To: STARWISE
Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson have got to be the two most self-absorbed people in Washington.

They want to be famous for being famous.

3 posted on 06/01/2006 9:59:46 PM PDT by sinkspur ( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
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To: sinkspur
"Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson....want to be famous for being famous"

I suggest you might want to finely tune your comments thusly"

Scratch: "famous..."

Insert: "infamous..."

Works for me!!! **S**

have a great weekend.
4 posted on 06/01/2006 10:04:21 PM PDT by dk/coro
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To: STARWISE

I can't imagine what she'd have to write about.

Joe Wilson has already blabbed to the whole world everything there is to know about the two of them, even stuff he should have kept quiet about.


5 posted on 06/01/2006 10:04:46 PM PDT by AmeriBrit (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, IT INCLUDES TERRORIST SLEEPER CELLS!!)
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To: STARWISE

Crown wanted sex, lies, and dirt.
Plame wanted something more serious and plausible.

Or vice cersa.


6 posted on 06/01/2006 10:06:49 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Uh, "vice versa".
Thank you.


7 posted on 06/01/2006 10:07:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: STARWISE
He said at the time that the book would be the "first airing of her actual role in the American intelligence community, as well as the prominence of her role in the lead-up to the war."

Sounds like the point of the book was to make Plame out to be some sort of omnipotent superspy, the supposed "outing" of whom crippled American intelligence capabilities. Perhaps even the premise was unable to make it past the first round of Crown fact-checkers! LOL.

8 posted on 06/01/2006 10:11:06 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: STARWISE

It's all about the money, isn't Valerie dear?


9 posted on 06/01/2006 10:11:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Somebody get Jack a beer! He spent the whole day "fraggin'" Marines!)
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To: STARWISE
I thought her 15minutes were up. :\
10 posted on 06/01/2006 10:11:15 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: AmeriBrit
Joe Wilson has already blabbed to the whole world everything there is to know about the two of them, even stuff he should have kept quiet about.

I bet she knows a bunch of national security secrets that she could tell bin ladin and co.

11 posted on 06/01/2006 10:12:41 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon
I thought her 15minutes were up. :\

They are. She ain't gettin' $2.5 mil from Simon and Schuster.

She'll be lucky to get a million.

12 posted on 06/01/2006 10:14:02 PM PDT by sinkspur ( Don Cheech. Vito Corleone would like to meet you......Vito Corleone.....)
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To: Lancey Howard

I thought former agents, particularly "covert" agents, were required to sign an agreement not to disclose any info for X number of years after they left the employ of the CIA?? What happened? Have they now decided to admit she was only a desk jockey of no consequence?


13 posted on 06/01/2006 10:14:27 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
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To: sinkspur

thats still to much $. :\


14 posted on 06/01/2006 10:15:23 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: STARWISE
I wonder if this book will give the details that led Plame's WMD control unit to mistake the Peoples Republic of China Embassy in Belgrade for a Serbian chemical weapons laboratory and submit a forged targeting order to NATO that led to the bombing of the embassy?
15 posted on 06/01/2006 10:15:45 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

16 posted on 06/01/2006 10:16:53 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: STARWISE
Valerie Plame, posing for the cover of her new book:


17 posted on 06/01/2006 10:17:46 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: STARWISE
"We had a difference of opinion on some of the contract terms"

Translation: Crown insisted on running it through team of fact-checkers before granting it a "non-fiction" label.

18 posted on 06/01/2006 10:18:36 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
It's priceless .. isn't it? Boris and Natasha are rehearsing their schtick for the next "audition" as we speak ...

..LOLOLOL!!!

19 posted on 06/01/2006 10:27:40 PM PDT by STARWISE (((They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL autho)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I wonder if this book will give the details that led Plame's WMD control unit to mistake the Peoples Republic of China Embassy in Belgrade...

Guess MapQuest wasn't too reliable. :)

20 posted on 06/01/2006 10:28:32 PM PDT by Diver Dave
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