CIA Agent Valerie Plame Goes Undercover In Vanity Fair

Washington Post ^ | December 3, 2003 | Howard Kurtz

[Quilla]

Former ambassador Joseph Wilson has been quite protective of his wife, Valerie Plame, in the weeks since her cover as a CIA operative was blown.

"My wife has made it very clear that -- she has authorized me to say this -- she would rather chop off her right arm than say anything to the press and she will not allow herself to be photographed," he declared in October on "Meet the Press."

But that was before Vanity Fair came calling.

The January issue features a two-page photo of Wilson and the woman the magazine calls "the most famous female spy in America," a "slim 40-year-old with white-blond hair and a big, bright smile." They are sitting in their Jaguar.

[Quilla]

Excerpted Washington Post article.

Holy Cow!

[danneskjold]

Considering the number of people that actually read Vanity Fair, her "cover" probably isn't in any great danger of being blown...

[MizSterious]

Will Playboy be next?

[Tired_of_the_Lies]

She seems to be very taken with her own importance. Could she be hamming it up a bit for her small window of fame?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

She's trying frantically to hold onto her fifteen minutes of fame. She doesn't want to only be remembered as being married to that schmuck.

[Miss Marple]

Look at this!! And how did I miss Wilson appearing at the press club and weeping about his wife's loss of anonymity?

The Wilsons are pond scum, opportunistic, grandstanders. Grrr.

[savedbygrace]

Plame is wearing a scarf and big glasses, which just adds to the aura of mystery. In a second shot on their terrace at the couple's home near Georgetown, she holds a newspaper in front of her face.

Wilson Wilson. LOL.

[Quilla]

The Wilsons are pond scum, opportunistic, grandstanders.

Worse - they're democrats too.

[sd-joe]

The Wilsons are a total POS couple.

[maggief]

"Wilson, who is pursuing a deal for a book ..."

Figure$.

[seamus]

Yeah. Here's some of my favorite passages about the Wilsons from the Kurtz story:

It's not that Plame has dropped out of sight. In October, as Vanity Fair notes, she was at the National Press Club -- wearing a "sharp cream pantsuit" -- while her husband received a truth-telling award. Wilson wept from the podium, saying, "If I could give you back your anonymity . . ." and then introduced Plame, who also teared up.

Spare me the dramatics. Tearing up? And we're supposed to believe that someone with such delicate sensibilities is a hardened "secret" agent sent on dangerous missions? Puleeeze.

Plame also mingled unobtrusively last month at a party at the home of The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn. But there has been an invisible bubble around her as reporters have respected the desire of "Jane Bond," as Wilson calls her, to remain in the Washington shadows.

This only strengthens the contention of Robert Novak that he was given Wilson's name in passing and didn't think it was a big deal because she was hardly unknown in Washington circles. The way these two are milking this non-scandal is shameful. Enough with the martyr act, already.

I've interviewed Joe Wilson. He's a charming fellow, and tells great stories of his travels abroad, but his phony indignity over this flap is just too much to bear. Despite being presented with evidence that his wife's "outing" was not big deal (it was unintentional, she's not really a "spook," everyone in town knows her and her relationship with her husband, it is legitimate to wonder if Valerie recommended her husband for a mission for which he is not qualified), Joe sticks to the talking points, and the elite media eat it up.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - PLAME - transparent effort to get Bush that went bust!

[VOA]

I don't have time for reading the article, but I think radio show host Laura Ingraham
mentioned that this CIA agent was even presented when her husband did an appearance
at (?)The National Press Club.
If true, so much for trying to maintain anonymity...

[Calpernia]

See the email from MoveOn.org featuring his review of their new antigov/war review on Iraq here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1032596/posts?page=26#26

[Calpernia]

Ping

[blau993]

Wilson may be a charming fellow, as you say, but, even by the incredibly high standards of Washington, he is a strong candidate for Asshole of the Year!

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Bwhahahaha! Another Clintonite shows their true stripes.

[finnman69]

http://www.instapundit.com/archives/012840.php

December 03, 2003



OKAY, I'M OFFICIALLY PRONOUNCING THE PLAME SCANDAL BOGUS:


Former ambassador Joseph Wilson has been quite protective of his wife, Valerie Plame, in the weeks since her cover as a CIA operative was blown.

"My wife has made it very clear that -- she has authorized me to say this -- she would rather chop off her right arm than say anything to the press and she will not allow herself to be photographed," he declared in October on "Meet the Press."

But that was before Vanity Fair came calling.

The January issue features a two-page photo of Wilson and the woman the magazine calls "the most famous female spy in America," a "slim 40-year-old with white-blond hair and a big, bright smile." They are sitting in their Jaguar.


No word on whether she's missing an arm. . . . Wilson says the pictures won't identify her. Sorry -- if you're really an undercover spy, and really worried about national security, you don't do this sort of thing. Unless, perhaps, you're a self-promoter first, and a spy second. Or your husband is.


posted at 11:00 AM by Glenn Reynolds

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

"I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille!"