Posted on 12/04/2010 2:33:51 PM PST by FTJM
WE'RE NOT in the habit of writing movie reviews. But the recently released film "Fair Game" - which covers a poisonous Washington controversy during the war in Iraq - deserves some editorial page comment, if only because of what its promoters are saying about it. The protagonists portrayed in the movie, former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson IV and former spy Valerie Plame, claim that it tells the true story of their battle with the Bush administration over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and Ms. Plame's exposure as a CIA agent. "It's accurate," Ms. Plame told The Post. Said Mr. Wilson: "For people who have short memories or don't read, this is the only way they will remember that period."
We certainly hope that is not the case. In fact, "Fair Game," based on books by Mr. Wilson and his wife, is full of distortions - not to mention outright inventions. To start with the most sensational: The movie portrays Ms. Plame as having cultivated a group of Iraqi scientists and arranged for them to leave the country, and it suggests that once her cover was blown, the operation was aborted and the scientists were abandoned. This is simply false. In reality, as The Post's Walter Pincus and Richard Leiby reported, Ms. Plame did not work directly on the program, and it was not shut down because of her identification.
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To their credit, the WaPo ran an editorial on the front page after the Intelligence Committee report. They described Joe Wilson as a "liar" and apologized to their readers for having given him a forum and credibility.
Nobody. His name isn't even mentioned in the movie.
Can't attest to the "tried her as covert and she bombed".
But she was definitely not "covert". Nobody who has been assigned to duty in the USA for the previous five years can be officially considered "covert". And Plame had been back in the US of A for over six years.
At least Charlie Wilson’s War was entertaining.
I read the other day that Armitage is not even mentioned in the movie - all the blame is laid on Libby........that right there tells you how accurate this POS movie is....I predict Penn wins an Oscar for this flop......
Me too.
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