Valery Plame Scandal Dramatized In Fair Game
A CIA operative named Valerie Plame had her cover blown by a journalist carrying water for the Bush administration in 2003. The White House leaked information that blew Plame’s cover in anger over public statements by her husband Joe Wilson saying V.P. Cheney lied about reasons for attacking Iraq. The event, known as “Plamegate,” has been made into a movie called “Fair Game” opening Friday.
’Fair Game’ entails Valerie Plame
The movie “Fair Game” tells the tale behind how Valerie Plame’s Central Intelligence Agency career had been wrecked when journalist Robert Novak revealed her identity. Plamegate began when Plame’s husband Joe Wilson, a previous United States ambassador, was sent on a mission to verify claims by the White House that Iraq was getting nuclear material from Niger. There was not anything found by Wilson. This lead him to write the article “What I did not find in Africa” within the New York Times to go against the White House. The Bush administration wasn’t telling the truth when giving reasoning for the Iraq War , which is what Wilson proves in the column. The reasoning, that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, had been false.
Operative in CIA tricked by Bush administration
Valerie Plame’s Central Intelligence Agency career was ruined because members of the Bush administration sought to damage Joe Wilson’s credibility. The idea had been to suggest Joe Wilson did not know what he had been doing and his wife, a Central Intelligence Agency operative, got him the assignment. Someone on the White House staff, planting the seeds for that lie, revealed Plame’s identity to Novak, who published it quickly. That happened at a bad time for Plame. She was working to get rid of nuclear proliferation undercover then. In addition to her identity, the company she used for cover and the other agents who worked at the business were exposed.
Plamegate fall guy is Scooter Libby
Giving the identity of an undercover Central Intelligence Agency operative is something illegal to do. Bush operatives including Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Richard Armitage and Lewis “Scooter” Libby all denied leaking Valerie Plame’s identity. Eventually to protect his boss, Libby, Cheney’s chief of staff, took the fall. He ended up with a $250,000 fine on March 6, 2007. He also got 30 months confinement. Scooter Libby had been pardoned by Bush on July 2, 2007. Some believe he was pardoned so that he would keep his mouth shut. To this day, no one knows the truth about who betrayed Valerie Plame.
Citations
Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801172.html
Hit Fix
hitfix.com/blogs/awards-campaign-2009/posts/watch-valerie-palme-and-joe-wilson-know-their-life-is-fair-game
Kansascity.com
kansascity.com/2010/11/04/2393249/qa-with-fair-game-subjects-joe.html
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame
December 17, 2010
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