VALERIE PLAME WILSON
Name: Valerie Plame Wilson
Born: 19 April 1963 Anchorage, Alaska
Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (born Valerie Elise Plame 19 April 1963, in Anchorage,
Alaska), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is
a former United States CIA Operations Officer whose covert identity was
classified and the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
After working for the CIA for twenty years, she retired in December 2005, as a
result of the publication and compromising of her classified cover identity by
an American journalist in the summer of 2003.
On 14 July 2003, Robert Novak identified "Wilson's wife" publicly as "an agency
operative on weapons of mass destruction" named "Valerie Plame" in his
syndicated column in The Washington Post. In that column Novak was responding
to an op-ed entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa," written by Wilson and
published in the New York Times the previous week, on July 6, 2003. In his op-ed,
Wilson stated that the George W. Bush administration exaggerated unreliable
claims that Iraq intended to purchase uranium yellowcake from Niger to support
the administration's arguments that Iraq was proliferating weapons of mass
destruction so as to justify its preemptive war in Iraq.
Novak's public disclosure of Mrs. Wilson's then-still-classified covert CIA
identity as "Valerie Plame" precipitated what is known as the Plame affair,
leading to the CIA leak grand jury investigation, which resulted in the
indictment , conviction and commuted sentence (prior to the anticipated full
pardon by President Bush) of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in United States v. Libby
on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to
federal investigators. A civil lawsuit filed by the Wilsons, Plame v. Cheney,
against current and former government officials, followed, but was dismissed on
July 19, 2007, in the District Court for the District of Columbia. The Wilsons
appealed the decision the next day.
Mrs. Wilson's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White
House, was published on October 22, 2007.
Name: Valerie Plame Wilson
Born: 19 April 1963 Anchorage, Alaska
Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (born Valerie Elise Plame 19 April 1963, in Anchorage,
Alaska), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is
a former United States CIA Operations Officer whose covert identity was
classified and the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
After working for the CIA for twenty years, she retired in December 2005, as a
result of the publication and compromising of her classified cover identity by
an American journalist in the summer of 2003.
On 14 July 2003, Robert Novak identified "Wilson's wife" publicly as "an agency
operative on weapons of mass destruction" named "Valerie Plame" in his
syndicated column in The Washington Post. In that column Novak was responding
to an op-ed entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa," written by Wilson and
published in the New York Times the previous week, on July 6, 2003. In his op-ed,
Wilson stated that the George W. Bush administration exaggerated unreliable
claims that Iraq intended to purchase uranium yellowcake from Niger to support
the administration's arguments that Iraq was proliferating weapons of mass
destruction so as to justify its preemptive war in Iraq.
Novak's public disclosure of Mrs. Wilson's then-still-classified covert CIA
identity as "Valerie Plame" precipitated what is known as the Plame affair,
leading to the CIA leak grand jury investigation, which resulted in the
indictment , conviction and commuted sentence (prior to the anticipated full
pardon by President Bush) of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in United States v. Libby
on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to
federal investigators. A civil lawsuit filed by the Wilsons, Plame v. Cheney,
against current and former government officials, followed, but was dismissed on
July 19, 2007, in the District Court for the District of Columbia. The Wilsons
appealed the decision the next day.
Mrs. Wilson's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White
House, was published on October 22, 2007.