A Central Intelligence Agency agent named Plame had her cover blown by a journalist carrying water for the Bush administration in 2003. The White House leaked information that blew Plame’s cover in anger over public statements by her husband Joe Wilson saying V.P. Dick Cheney lied about reasons for attacking Iraq. The event, known as “Plamegate,” has been made into a movie called “Fair Game” opening Friday.
Valerie Plame and ‘Fair Game’
Journalist Robert Novak ruined Central Intelligence Agency agent Plame’s career when her identity had been revealed, which is the story of "Fair Game". Plamegate began when Plame’s husband Joe Wilson, a previous United States ambassador, had been sent on a mission to verify says by the White House that Iraq had been getting nuclear material from Niger. There wasn't anything found by Wilson. This lead him to write the article "What I didn't discover in Africa" within the New York Times to go against the White House. Wilson’s column exposed that the Bush administration’s rationale for the Iraq War that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction had been a fraud.
Central Intelligence Agency operative betrayed by Bush administration
The career of CIA operative Valerie Plame was ruined by the Bush administration. This had been because they wanted Joe Wilson's credibility to be taken away. The idea had been to suggest Joe Wilson did not know what he had been doing and his wife, a Central Intelligence Agency operative, got him the assignment. Novak had the identity of Plame revealed to him by somebody on the White House staff which lead to that being published. That happened at a bad time for Plame. She was working to get rid of nuclear proliferation undercover then. In addition to her identity, the company she used for cover and also the other agents who worked at the business were exposed.
Scooter Libby takes the blame for Plamegate
It’s illegal to tell someone the identity of a CIA operative. This is even truer when that operative is undercover. Bush operatives including Dick Cheney, Rove, Richard Armitage and Lewis “Scooter” Libby all denied leaking Valerie Plame’s identity. Eventually to protect his boss, Libby, Cheney’s chief of staff, took the fall. He ended up with a $250,000 fine on March 6, 2007. He also got 30 months confinement. George W. Bush took action on July 2, 2007. Scooter Libby got a pardon. This had been so he would not tell his tale. That's why he got the pardon some think. To this day, nobody knows the truth about who tricked Plame.
Information from
Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801172.html
Hit Fix
hitfix.com/blogs/awards-campaign-2009/posts/watch-valerie-palme-and-joe-wilson-know-their-life-is-fair-game
Kansascity.com
kansascity.com/2010/11/04/2393249/qa-with-fair-game-subjects-joe.html
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame
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