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She's arguably the country's most famous former spy, now suing Vice President Dick Cheney, among others, for allegedly blowing her cover. Valerie Plame, the woman at the center of the CIA leak case, spoke out today, along with her husband, the former U.S. ambassador, Joe Wilson. CNN's Jeanne Moos shows us how the couple's high profile news conference unfolded. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a flash bulb frenzy. After all those months of being seen but not heard, America's most glamorous former spy spoke. VALERIE PLAME, FORMER CIA OPERATIVE: Joe and I have filed this action...

CAMDEN, N.C. — A former Blackwater USA employee said Friday an addiction to prescription pain killers led her to try to extort $1 million from the security company by threatening to leak information about the killings of four contractors in Iraq. Laura Holdren-Nowacki, 35, of Moyock, made the admission in a statement released after she pleaded not guilty to one count of extortion. District Attorney Frank Parrish said outside of court that, at Blackwater's request, he will ask Monday for the charge to be dropped. Holdren-Nowacki said she suffered from "significant depression and severe migraine headaches" and had taken significantly...