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Plame Felt Like 'Soviet Nonperson' (Whiny-person Barf Alert)
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | October 24, 2007 | Kathaleen Roberts

Posted on 10/24/2007 7:56:54 AM PDT by CedarDave

To flip through the first third of Valerie Plame Wilson's "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House" is to confront an optical maze of gray stripes interrupting juicy anecdotes and methodical musings.

CIA censors blacked out 10 percent of the text in her memoir, leaving its narrative disjointed and sometimes hard to follow. "I believe the vast majority of what is blacked out in the book has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with diminishing me and Joe," she said.

Agency censors also wouldn't allow Plame Wilson to acknowledge working there before 2002, even though public records and news stories are heavy with accounts describing her as a 20-year veteran.

Discounted by critics as a "glorified secretary," Plame Wilson takes great pains to defend her job description. She rose to top-level positions around the globe, working deep undercover, she writes. By 1998, she was working at the agency's Langley, Va., headquarters in counter-proliferation. By the time her name was leaked, she was chief of operations for the CIA's joint task force on Iraq, managing dozens of officers and analysts.

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Both Wilsons are convinced she was outed in retaliation by White House officials who sought to discredit him by dismissing the trip as a junket arranged by his wife. "This notion that there was nepotism involved is at minimum a red herring."

In an instant, she knew her career was over: "I felt like I had been sucker-punched in the gut."

Bush vowed to fire whoever leaked her identity. As the investigation dragged on, Plame Wilson says, she received threats and asked the CIA for security, but was denied.

"The agency likes to talk big on saying we are all family; I certainly didn't feel like family."

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: cialeak; liar; plame; plamegate; valerieplame; whiner
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They now live in Santa Fe and join all the fruits, nuts and flakes there that give the city the apt name "San Francisco east".
1 posted on 10/24/2007 7:56:56 AM PDT by CedarDave
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I believe one or both have joined the Hillary campaign as anadvisor. Anyone know their connection with the Clinton’s?


2 posted on 10/24/2007 7:59:46 AM PDT by CedarDave (The only access Hillary-care will bring is access to a waiting list.)
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Deep undercover as a Desk Analyst. Wow, I am impressed...Not!


3 posted on 10/24/2007 8:00:25 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: CedarDave

Can anyone spell “Media Whore” in the Cyrillic alphabet?


4 posted on 10/24/2007 8:00:44 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: CedarDave
Valerie Plame Wilson's "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by of the White House"

Title fixed.

5 posted on 10/24/2007 8:03:01 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
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To: CedarDave

Maybe she should release a few more naked pics of herself.

That’s usually the answer.


6 posted on 10/24/2007 8:03:30 AM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (I am a proud anti-invasion racist!)
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I just bet she was top spy.........if that’s the best we can do it is all over, folks.


7 posted on 10/24/2007 8:03:40 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: darkwing104

Who’s ass is she trying to blow smoke up? The commie liberal POS. As I See It,
NSNR


8 posted on 10/24/2007 8:05:03 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat (Xin Loi My Boy!!!!)
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Some spy; she had her bio published in Who’s Who.


9 posted on 10/24/2007 8:05:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: massgopguy
Can anyone spell “Media Whore” in the Cyrillic alphabet?

So true. The below paragraph reminds me of that picture of Joe in the foreground with her in a robe in the background:
In an instant, she knew her career was over: "I felt like I had been sucker-punched in the gut. I got up, put on my robe, went downstairs and called my boss."

Anyone got a link to that picture?

10 posted on 10/24/2007 8:05:30 AM PDT by CedarDave (The only access Hillary-care will bring is access to a waiting list.)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Maybe she should release a few more naked pics of herself. That’s usually the answer.

Only picture I will post:


11 posted on 10/24/2007 8:10:37 AM PDT by CedarDave (The only access Hillary-care will bring is access to a waiting list.)
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To: CedarDave
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
12 posted on 10/24/2007 8:13:11 AM PDT by Popocatapetl
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She was so tough to crack she admitted she told Joe she was a spy after thy bumped uglies on the second date.

Almost made it to the water boarding.....


13 posted on 10/24/2007 8:13:33 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: CedarDave

I can believe that. Palme sounds like such a fake.


14 posted on 10/24/2007 8:19:00 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: massgopguy
Can anyone spell “Media Whore” in the Cyrillic alphabet?

(Roughly): МEДЯЪ ЧOРЪ

15 posted on 10/24/2007 8:21:59 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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To: CedarDave

Repeat: she was not a spy, she was an analyst with delusions of grandeur.


16 posted on 10/24/2007 8:23:06 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: CedarDave

She is a Soviet nonperson.


17 posted on 10/24/2007 8:23:15 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: DainBramage

She really said “you’re MIA guy!”

Joe heard “I’m a CIA spy”


18 posted on 10/24/2007 8:24:28 AM PDT by listenhillary (millions crippled by the war on poverty....but we won't pull out)
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To: CedarDave
Anyone got a link to that picture?

Yes, but I "amended" it (a bit) to comment on Miss Plame's penchant for Film Noir dramatics...


19 posted on 10/24/2007 8:25:21 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

That’s some keyboard you have there.


20 posted on 10/24/2007 8:26:25 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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