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| − | '''Valeria Plame''' is a former [[CIA]] | + | '''Valeria Plame''' is a former [[CIA]] employee whose work there ended when her identity was exposed in a column by political writer [[Robert Novak]]. Plame is the wife of [[Joseph Wilson]] and the center of the [[Valerie Plame Affair]]. |
The exposure of Plame as an active covert [[CIA]] agent led to the appointment by President Bush of Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the matter, and eventually to the conviction of [[I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr.]], former Chief of Staff to Vice President of the United States, [[Richard Cheney]], for perjury to a grand jury, making false statements to federal investigators, and obstruction of justice. | The exposure of Plame as an active covert [[CIA]] agent led to the appointment by President Bush of Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the matter, and eventually to the conviction of [[I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr.]], former Chief of Staff to Vice President of the United States, [[Richard Cheney]], for perjury to a grand jury, making false statements to federal investigators, and obstruction of justice. | ||
Revision as of 13:05, June 2, 2008
Valeria Plame is a former CIA employee whose work there ended when her identity was exposed in a column by political writer Robert Novak. Plame is the wife of Joseph Wilson and the center of the Valerie Plame Affair.
The exposure of Plame as an active covert CIA agent led to the appointment by President Bush of Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the matter, and eventually to the conviction of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., former Chief of Staff to Vice President of the United States, Richard Cheney, for perjury to a grand jury, making false statements to federal investigators, and obstruction of justice.
In May 2007, Senator Kit Bond, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Plame to explain differences in the various accounts Plame gave to investigators in the Plame Affair.
- Plame told the CIA's inspector general in 2003 or 2004 that she had suggested Wilson.
- Plame told Senate Intelligence Committee staffers in 2004 that she couldn't remember whether she had suggested Wilson.
- She told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March that an unidentified person in Vice President Cheney's office asked a CIA colleague about the African uranium report in February 2002. A third officer, overhearing Plame and the colleague discussing this, suggested, "Well, why don't we send Joe?" Plame told the committee. [1]
See also
References
- ↑ Plame called on to explain varied accounts, By Richard Willing, USA TODAY, May 29, 2007.