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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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To: CedarDave
Poor Val, she lives in denial of who “punched her in the gut”.

Her own husband dear Joe, did it, he is the wife beater here.

When he wrote that oped in the NYT, he exposed her....bigtime.

21 posted on 10/24/2007 8:26:29 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: CedarDave
Plame Felt Like 'Soviet Nonperson'

Unless someone took her into the basement of Lubyanka Prison and shot her in the back of the head, she probably did not feel like a Soviet non-person.

22 posted on 10/24/2007 8:33:44 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: CedarDave

When you’re a government employee, particularly in the Intel Community, you give up certain “rights,” the right to write books on anything you want. In return you get a good salary/benefits, relatively interesting work, and a nice standard of living.

Pretty good tradeoff.

The rules aren’t new she just doesn’t to follow them.


23 posted on 10/24/2007 8:36:05 AM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: CedarDave

Next the children will write their tell all books. Now who really did hire Joe? I do not believe for a minute that his gal Val started this whole mess because if she did then we got bigger problems than terrorists.


24 posted on 10/24/2007 8:42:12 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: CedarDave

Valerie and Joe are two good examples of opportunists who figured out long ago on how to milk the system. The MSM are their helpers.


25 posted on 10/24/2007 8:43:48 AM PDT by hgro (Jerry Riversd)
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To: CedarDave

“Baby, baby, stick your head in gravy....”


26 posted on 10/24/2007 8:44:30 AM PDT by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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To: Just mythoughts

Isn’t her 15 minutes up long ago? Talk about stretching out a story...


27 posted on 10/24/2007 8:44:37 AM PDT by LYSandra
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To: CedarDave

let me guess...
Being on the Code Pink celebrity circuit was the “Gulag”, right??

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is rolling in his grave...


28 posted on 10/24/2007 8:47:07 AM PDT by tcrlaf (You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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To: massgopguy
Can anyone spell “Media Whore” in the Cyrillic alphabet?

LOL!! Don't have cyrillic font but I'll try with english letters: "Mugua XOP" (the "a" in mugua" really should be a "ya" - or what is the mirror image R) or simply put she's a media "Kypba" (Serbian for whore)LOL!

29 posted on 10/24/2007 8:48:51 AM PDT by blinachka (Vechnaya Pamyat Daddy... xoxo)
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To: andy58-in-nh
МEДИЯЪ XOРЪ
30 posted on 10/24/2007 8:50:02 AM PDT by Petronski (Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs)
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To: CedarDave

Didn’t I read in Pravda that she died in a Cosmodrome fire?


31 posted on 10/24/2007 8:51:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: Petronski
Strike that, it should be:

МИДИЯЪ XOРЪ

32 posted on 10/24/2007 8:52:13 AM PDT by Petronski (Congratulations Tribe! AL Central Champs)
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To: andy58-in-nh

LOL...Not bad...not bad...:)


33 posted on 10/24/2007 9:10:28 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: LYSandra
’t her 15 minutes up long ago? Talk about stretching out a story...

Whom ever is promoting her sure picked a sorry moment in time to promote her. She will have to go playmate to get the kind of coverage her husband is lusting after.

Southern California looks like .ell on earth, baseball, football, and a Republican wins in Louisiana... Not to mention how well things are going in Iraq...

34 posted on 10/24/2007 9:11:28 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: CedarDave

If I were President... she would get the Gary Gilmore treatment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LLS


35 posted on 10/24/2007 9:21:00 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: Petronski

That’s it, thanks!


36 posted on 10/24/2007 9:49:17 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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To: All

Val needs a boyfriend


37 posted on 10/24/2007 10:02:40 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (FantasyCollegeBlitz.com)
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To: CedarDave

Valerie was on NPR Fresh Air last night whining about how she had been abused.


38 posted on 10/24/2007 10:03:02 AM PDT by Mack the knife
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To: massgopguy
средств

I got one word right.

39 posted on 10/24/2007 10:16:01 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: CedarDave

Poor Val and Joe, with their million dollar book deals.


40 posted on 10/24/2007 10:34:59 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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