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Plame Scandal Dramatized In Fair Game

CIA agent Plame had been undercover when she had been outed by a journalist in 2003. The White House leaked data 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 incident, known as “Plamegate,” has been made into a film called “Fair Game” opening Friday.

Plame’s role in ‘Fair Game’

The film “Fair Game” tells the tale behind how Valerie Plame’s Central Intelligence Agency career was wrecked when journalist Robert Novak revealed her identity. Plamegate started when Plame’s husband Joe Wilson, a previous U.S. ambassador, had been sent on a mission to verify claims by the White House that Iraq was getting nuclear material from Niger. Wilson wrote a column in the NY Times called “What I did not find in Africa” in order to go against the White House after no finding anything. The column that Wilson wrote showed that Saddam Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction making the Iraq War for the Bush administration a fraud.

Bush administration comes back at agent in CIA

The Bush administration, in an attempt to destroy Joe Wilson’s credibility, wrecked Valerie Plame’s CIA career. The idea was to suggest Joe Wilson didn’t know what he had been doing and his wife, a CIA agent, 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 right away. Plame was working on nuclear proliferation being ruined undercover when that happen. She and those within the business undercover were all exposed. This led the business being exposed as well.

Scooter Libby takes the blame for Plamegate

It is illegal to tell someone the identity of a CIA agent. This is even truer when that agent is undercover. Valerie Plame’s identity being leaked was denied by Dick Cheney, Rove, Richard Armitage and Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Libby ended up taking the fall. This had been so Cheney would be protected. He had been fined $250,000 and sentenced to 30 months in prison on March 6, 2007. On July 2, 2007, Bush pardoned Scooter Libby. Some believe he had been pardoned so that he would keep his mouth shut. The truth with Plame isn’t known still. It is one big secret.

Articles cited

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

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