AP: Plame Now Spends Her Days at CIA Desk Job

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Joe Wilson says it was mutual love at first sight when he and Valerie Plame spotted each other at a crowded diplomatic reception eight years ago. Well, yes and no.

For Plame, the stars in her eyes that night were quickly followed by a LexisNexis computer search the next day to make sure the guy with all the fantastic stories about his life as a globe-trotting diplomat was really legit.

It is classic Valerie Plame: The silhouetted woman at the center of the CIA leak investigation is said to be warm and genuine, but also a savvy professional. Tough, too, fellow CIA officers would add.

Joining the agency soon after graduating from Penn State with an advertising degree, Plame excelled in a rigorous training regimen that washed some others out.

"Valerie was not a crier and she wasn't a wimp," recalls Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst who was part of her 1985 training class. "She was 22 and very young coming into the CIA, but she was very mature, very professional." Other fellow trainees remember her as a head-turning blonde who did well wielding an AK-47.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051030/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/plame_profile

[...of J.Temperance]

1. This is REALLY tragic, how it's ended for Valerie Wilson

In the PERFECT world, she COULD have ended up as the Director of The CIA. She was both professional AND had integrity.

Now her career is over, because of the pig fuckers. Damn them to the deepest, darkest depths of Hell.

Oh and I gave this thread a vote, because I'm in a shockingly good mood.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

9. Her career as an undercover op is over

She could still be CIA director. How sweet would that be?

[Triana]

2. Those goddamned WH bastards ruined her career...

...AND they have deprived this country of one of the most experienced agents we had on WMD. She can no longer serve in the capacity she did before. She's had threats on her life. They blew the cover of the entire company that she 'worked' for - the whole damned operation. They exposed the workings of the CIA to the entire world - INCLUDING the terrorists.

IDIOTS!

[Bozita]

3. I tried to rate this Yahoo story, but I couldn't

Is this a computer problem?

Or?

Mac G4 running OS 9.2

[deadparrot]

4. Do you have a Yahoo account that you're signed into?

Might be a stupid question, but I know I've done it before. :)

[Bozita]

5. Yes, I do.

And I just tried it again after opening my "My Yahoo" page.

[oldtime dfl_er]

6. me too

page won't load. Weird. A diversionary tactic to keep me from ranting about how angry I am at the sexist aspects of this case?? For a woman -- a person -- of her talents, skills, education and ability to be tossed to the wolves, assumed to be a "glorified secretary", her career treated like it was nothing, just pisses me off.

[rainbow4321]

7. Chimp's cronies don't care who gets destroyed.....

[wakeme2008]

8. Full video is up on two places

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5225815

I did the 32meg Bittorrent version on C&L and it was GREAT...

[goforit]

10. Valerie will win in the end.