Valerie Plame

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Valerie Elise Plame Wilson (née Plame, August 13, 1963) is an American writer, spy novelist, and former soldier with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and then published by Washington Post reporter Robert Novak as the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal. Richard Armitage of the United States Department of State was named as one source of the facts, and Vice President Dick Cheney, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was found guilty of lying to investigators in the aftermath of the controversy.

President George W. Bush commuted Libby's term, and in 2018, President Donald Trump pardoned him.

No one was charged with breaking the information. Plame wrote a book in collaboration with a ghostwriter that chronicled her career and the events leading up to her expulsion from the CIA.

She has since written and published at least two spy books.

Fair Game, her and her partner's memoirs, was released as a 2010 biographical feature film based on memoirs.

Early life and education

Valerie Elise Plame was born on August 13, 1963, on Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, to Diane (née McClintock) and Samuel Plame III. Plame claims that her paternal grandfather was Jewish, the son of a rabbi who immigrated from Ukraine; the original family surname was "Plamevotski." The majority of Plame's family was Protestant (the faith in which Plame was raised); she was unaware that her grandfather was Jewish before she was an adult.

She graduated from Lower Moreland High School in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in 1981, and with a B.A. in 1985. Advertising is a form of public radio. She joined Pi Beta Phi sorority and worked with the Daily Collegian student newspaper's business division while attending Penn State University and worked for the business division.

Personal life

Plame married Todd Sesler after graduating from Penn State in 1985; the union ended in divorce in 1989. Plame first met former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson in 1997 while working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They were married on April 3, 1998. Wilson said in his memoir that he was estranged from his second wife Jacqueline at the time they met. They divorced after 12 years of marriage so Plame would marry him. Wilson and Plame divorced in 2017. Wilson died in 2019. In 2020, Plame married Dr. Joseph Shepard, President of Western New Mexico University.

The family lived in The Palisades, Washington, D.C., prior to the CIA's admission of her CIA service in January 2006, where Plame served as a consultant to the Santa Fe Institute until 2016. Plame said in a 2011 interview that she and Wilson had received assaults while living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and that the New Mexico location was calm.

In the run-up to the 2016 US presidential race, Plame endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

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Career

Plame worked in a clothing store while waiting for the results of her CIA transfer to Washington, D.C., after graduating from college and heading to Washington, D.C. She was accepted into the 1985-1986 CIA officer training program. Plame "was a CIA officer from January 1, 2002, forward," Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said, "her connection with the CIA was restricted at that time until July 2003." Plame's professional career is still unclear, but it is also reported that she worked with the CIA in a non-official cover position related to counter-proliferation.

Plame served the CIA as a non-official cover (or NOC), and the CIA was active in Athens and Brussels. Her assignments included posing in a variety of managerial capacities in order to gather intelligence more accurately, so she used her own word, "Valerie Plame." Two of her roles included serving as a junior consular officer in Athens in the early 1990s and then as an energy consultant for the private company (founded in 1994) "Brewster Jennings & Associates," which the CIA later discovered was a front company for such inquiries. Plame was recalled as one of the "control officers" in charge of President George H. Bush's visit to Greece and Turkey in July 1991, a senior diplomat in Athens remembered him in her dual role, as well as recalled that she served as one of the "control officers" coordinating his visit to Greece and Turkey. It's unclear if she had a clandestine position. The first CIA went to the London School of Economics and then the College of Europe in Bruges in 1991 to obtain Master's degrees. After earning a second degree, she continued her work in Brussels, where she began her next assignment as an "energy consultant" for Brewster-Jennings. Plame's main position was relocated to Langley, Virginia, beginning in 1997.

During this period, part of her duties was concerned with the determination of the use of aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq. The White House had praised CIA analysts ahead of the Iraqi invasion as saying that Iraq was trying to acquire nuclear weapons and that these aluminum tubes could be used in a centrifuge for nuclear enrichment. Plame and her CIA colleagues in the Directorate of Central Intelligence Nonproliferation Center's Undercover Work under suspicion, according to David Corn and Michael Isikoff.

Robert Novak, a Washington Post reporter, used reports from Richard Armitage, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby to reveal Plame's identity as a CIA agent in his column on July 14, 2003. Certainly, she was classified as a CIA informant for the CIA at the time when Novak's column was published in July 2003, according to legal documents released during the CIA leak grand jury probe, United States v. Libby, and congressional probes.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spoke at the press conference on October 28, 2005, stressing the importance of secrecy about his grand jury probe, which began in the fall of 2003: "when it was clear that Valerie Wilson's cover had been blown"—and the source and consequences of the prosecution of then top-ranking Bush Administration official Scooter Libby's indictment as it pertains to her.

Fitzgerald's subsequent responses to reporters' questions shed further light on the scope of the investigation and whether or not he could and should not reveal properly at the time. Libby testified that "he was specifically authorized in advance" of his meeting with Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, to reveal the "key decisions" of the October 2002 classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). "The Vice President later advised him that the President had authorized the defendant to reveal the relevant portions of the NIE [to Judith Miller]," according to Libby's testimony. According to his testimony, Libby's information was meant to refute Miller's allegations "was intended to contradict the allegations of an administration critic, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson." "We don't want to try to get into some sort of selective declassification" of the NIE, according to Libby's meeting with Miller, who then: "We're looking at what's available." On July 18, 2003, ten days after Libby's meeting with Miller, a "sanitized version" of the NIE in question was released, and a White House background briefing on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq was unveiled. Valerie Plame or her CIA status are not mentioned in the NIE, but the Special Counsel has stated that White House proceedings were part of "a conspiracy to denigrate, punish, or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson Wilson Wilson President Bush had already stated that he would dismiss anyone who had deposed Plame.

According to a court filing submitted by Libby's defense team, Plame was not foremost in the minds of government officials as they sought to refute allegations that the White House manipulated intelligence to make a case for invasion. According to the complaint, Libby's solicitors did not want to say that Plame's identity was revealed. "Mr. Libby's indictment is incorrect" because it claims that Ms. Wilson's contribution in driving her husband to Africa is "significant," according to Libby's lawyers, who requested that Libby summon Karl Rove to the stand. Fitzgerald has opted against pressuring Rove.

Perception (two counts), obstruction of justice (one count), and making incorrect representations to federal prosecutors (two counts). However, there was no charge for disclosing classified information, i.e., Plame's status as a CIA agent.

On March 6, 2007, Libby was found guilty of obstruction of justice, making false claims, and two counts of perjury. He was found not guilty of making false statements on one count. He was not charged with revealing Plame's CIA number. His term included a $250,000 fine, 30 months in jail, and two years of probation. President George W. Bush commuted Libby's sentencing on July 2, 2007, removing the prison term but leaving in place the fine and probation, calling the sentence "excessive." "The Scooter Libby decision, I think, was a fair and balanced decision," Bush said in a subsequent press conference on July 12, 2007. The Wilsons reacted angrily to the commutation in remarks made by their legal counsel Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), as well as their own legal support page. On April 13, 2018, President Donald Trump pardoned Libby.

Joseph and Valerie Wilson filed a civil lawsuit against Rove, Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other unidentified senior White House officials (to whom they later added Richard Armitage) for their alleged involvement in Valerie Wilson's classified CIA status. On July 19, 2007, Judge John D. Bates dismissed the Wilsons' complaint on administrative grounds; the Wilsons appealed. The three-judge jury of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the dismissal in a 2-1 decision on August 12, 2008. "The Wilsons' Melanie Sloan, President of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said the party will request the entire D.C." The case will be heard by the Circuit Court of Appeal and Appeals to the United States Supreme Court. The Wilsons had no legitimate grounds to sue, according to the Obama Justice Department, who was working with Bush. "We are extremely disappointed that the Obama administration has failed to acknowledge the serious harm that Bush White House officials inflicted on Joe and Valerie Wilson." The government's position cannot be reconciled with President Obama's pledge to hold government officials accountable for their conduct."

The appeal was dismissed by the Supreme Court on June 21, 2009.

Congressman Henry Waxman, chair of the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in Libby, announced on March 8, 2007, two days after the verdict was announced, in an attempt by his committee to investigate "whether White House officials followed the correct protocols for safeguarding Plame's identity."

Waxman read a statement about Plame's CIA work that had been denied by CIA director Gen. Michael V. Hayden and the CIA, revealing that she was undercover and that her service with the CIA was classified information under surveillance that was not allowed to be revealed under Executive Order 12958.

The following portions of her testimony were focused on subpoenas in various news outlets:

Joseph Wilson, Plame's husband, revealed on March 6, 2007, that the couple had "signed an agreement with Warner Bros of Hollywood to provide their consultancy services—or perhaps more—in the production of the forthcoming film about the Libby trial." The feature film, which was a co-production between Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman and Jerry and Janet Zucker of Zucker Productions, and a Jez and John-Henry Butterworth's screenplay, was supposed to be based in part on Valerie Wilson's book Fair Game, but it was eventually released on October 22, 2007.

Valerie Wilson decided to a $2.5 million book contract with Crown Publishing Group, a Random House affiliate. According to Steve Ross, senior vice president and publisher of Crown, the book would be her "first airing of her actual service in the American intelligence community, as well as her role in the lead-up to the war." The book arrangement fell through, according to the New York Times, and Plame was in exclusive talks with Simon & Schuster. Ultimately, Simon and Schuster announced the book deal, but not in the financial terms, and, first, no set publication date was established.

Simon and Schuster Wilson, as well as Michael V. Hayden, the CIA's Director of National Intelligence, and Valerie Wilson were among those suing J. Michael McConnell, "unconstitutionally intervening with the publication of her book, Fair Game," which is set to be published in October [2007], by not allowing Plame to specify the dates she served in the CIA." Judge Barbara S. Jones of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, interpreted the case in favour of the CIA. Plame would not be able to state in her memoir the exact dates she had served with the CIA, according to the court. Judge Jones' decision was confirmed by the federal court of appeals for the Second Circuit in 2009.

Valerie Wilson spoke to Charlie Rose in an interview with her show "The CIA leak grand jury probe; United States vs. Libby, the civil case brought by her husband and her husband were still fighting against Libby, Cheney, Rove, and Armitage; and other topics discussed in her book relating to her clandestine service with the CIA.

Fair Game, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, was released on November 5, 2010. It is based on two books, one written by Plame and the other by her husband. "The movie holds up as a thoroughly researched and essentially accurate account, with caveats," the Washington Post editorial page, led by editor Fred Hiatt, a vocal promoter of Plame's identity being leaked, said of the film as "full of distortions—not to mention outright inventions."

Plame would publish a series of spy novels with mystery writer Sarah Lovett in May 2011. Blowback, Penguin Group's first book in the series, was published on October 1, 2013.

Plame launched a GoFundMe fundraising page in August 2017 in the hopes of buying a majority interest in Twitter and booting US President Donald Trump off the platform. She started her campaign because she believes that Donald Trump'emboldens white supremacists' and that she'emboldens journalists' and encourages "violence against journalists."

She set the campaign's target to $1 billion with the campaign's hashtag "Let's #BuyTwitter and #BanTrump," and her campaign raised $88,000.

Plame tweeted a link to an article titled "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars" on September 17, repeating the article's title in her tweet. According to the essay, certain "American Jews" with no sign of authenticity should be given a special mark when appearing on television: "kind-of-like a warning label on a bottle of rat poison." Plame first defended her posts amid backlash on Twitter, saying, "Many neocon hawks are Jewish." People should "read the entire article" without bias, according to her, who wrote in defense of herself after the initial backlash: "Read the whole article, just for a moment, to set aside your prejudices and think clearly."

"I messed up," she said in a two-hour email, "OK guys, look, I messed up." I skimmed this article, honed in on the neocon opposition, and posted it without seeing or considering the rest. I missed gross undercurrents to this story & didn't do my homework on the website this article came from. Now that I see it, it's clear. All apologies. There's so much stuff in the AF that's problematic, and I should have noticed it sooner. Thank you for compeling me to check back in. I'm not perfect and make mistakes. It was a doozy. "I can't do anything but admit it, try to be more efficient, and read more carefully next time," Ugh says. Ramesh Ponnuru and Caleb Ecarma have argued that the incident related to a pattern of antisemitic material being released by her, as well as Plame's mumbling about "rich Jews." She had tweeted at least eight articles from the same website before, in which she had previously retweeted traces to conspiracy theories of 'dancing Israelis' being behind the 9/11 attacks.'

Plame declared her candidacy in May 2019 for New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the 2020 elections. Democratic Representative Ben Ray Luján, who ran for Senate instead, had vacated the seat in northern New Mexico. She outspent her opponents with funds raised outside of her district. Teresa Leger Fernandez defeated Teresa Leger Fernandez in the seven-way Democratic primary election on June 2, 2020. Fernandez received 44,480 votes, Plame 25,775 votes, and Joseph L. Sanchez 12,292 votes.

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