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On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. Seven days later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. The public disclosure of this secret information spurred a federal investigation and resulted in the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and the Wilsons' civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration. Much has been discussed the "Valerie Plame" story, but Valerie herself has been silent, as yet. Some of what has been reported about her has been frighteningly accurate, serving as a pungent reminder to the Wilsons that their lives are no more private. Plus some has been completely false -- distorted characterizations of Valerie and her husband and their shared integrity.
Valerie Wilson retired from the CIA in January 2006, and now, not only as a citizen but as a wife and mother, the daughter of Air Force colonel, and the sister of your U.S. marine, she sets the record straight, providing a fantastic account of her training and experiences, and answers many questions that contain been asked about her covert status, her responsibilities, and her life. As readers will dsicover, the CIA still deems a lot of the detail of Valerie's story to be classified. As a service to readers, an afterword by national security reporter Laura Rozen provides a context for Valerie's own story.
Fair Game is the historic and unvarnished account of the non-public and international consequences of speaking truth to power.
