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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Baby, baby, stick your head in gravy....”
Isn’t her 15 minutes up long ago? Talk about stretching out a story...
let me guess...
Being on the Code Pink celebrity circuit was the “Gulag”, right??
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is rolling in his grave...
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!
Didn’t I read in Pravda that she died in a Cosmodrome fire?
МИДИЯЪ XOРЪ
LOL...Not bad...not bad...:)
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...
If I were President... she would get the Gary Gilmore treatment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LLS
That’s it, thanks!
Val needs a boyfriend
Valerie was on NPR Fresh Air last night whining about how she had been abused.
I got one word right.
Poor Val and Joe, with their million dollar book deals.
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