Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House

Valerie Plame Wilson

Oct 2007 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

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. A week 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 that secret information spurred a federal investigation and led to 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 written about the "Valerie Plame" story, but Valerie herself has been silent, until now. 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 longer private. And 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 an Air Force colonel, and the sister of a U.S. marine, she sets the record straight, providing an extraordinary account of her training and experiences, and answers many questions that have been asked about her covert status, her responsibilities, and her life. As readers will see, the CIA still deems much 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 personal and international consequences of speaking truth to power.

Ratings and reviews

It was a pleasure to read this book. Although I really wished that the publisher's did not black out information. If it really was "confidential" why didn't they send it back to Valerie to have it re-written? It's really a waste of paper if I can't read anything. It's a decent read. This government never cease to show us how ugly they can be. The US government is ideal, but it's the people behind the scenes and whoever that's running the show that makes this government broken. Whether or not you believe that the Wilson's story is true or false, you cannot argue that this government isn't broken. There's always going to be someone in power abusing their privileges and authority.

I'm a person who believes i truth, justice and the milky way. Certain objects in the book are much closer than they appear in the rear view mirror of reality. I went to high school with Valerie and she always took time to pet my dog and/or my horse. Quite a gal. 5 THUMBS UP YOU GO GIRL!!!!

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About the author

Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA covert operations officer, was born on Elmendorf Air Force base in Anchorage, Alaska in 1963. She holds a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and master's degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Her career in the CIA included extensive work in counterproliferation operations, working to ensure that enemies of the United States could not threaten America with weapons of mass destruction. She and her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, are the parents of seven-year-old twins. Ms. Wilson and her family live in New Mexico.