""Valerie told me later that it was like being hit in the stomach. Twenty years of service had gone down the drain""
Yeah, right. My take on this is that Valerie was upset about being "outed" only because (a) it might lead to nepotism-related questions about her dispatching her very own hubby to Niger and (b) it wasn't done in a laudatory manner. You BET she'd have been happy to see her name in print if it was for "CIA Employee of the Month."
If ever two people deserved each other, it's the Wilsons.