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Congressional Testimony by Valerie Plame Wilson
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“[…] Valerie Plame
Wilson testified today that the career she loved as an undercover C.I.A.
agent was ‘over in an instant’ when her role was disclosed in the summer of 2003.
Speaking in public for the first time about the episode that touched off a
scandal in the Bush administration, Ms. Wilson told a House committee that
her undercover status ‘was not common knowledge on the Georgetown cocktail
circuit,’ as some people have suggested. Nor did she recommend her husband
for a now-famous trip to Africa as some of the couple’s critics have
asserted, Ms. Wilson said. Ms. Wilson said she felt as though she had been
‘hit in the gut’ when her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, dropped a newspaper
on their bed on the morning of July 14, 2003, and she saw that the columnist
Robert D. Novak had mentioned her C.I.A. status in passing. […]” - Excerpt of
a New York Times article
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Valerie Plame Wilson - Ex-CIA officer |
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The Video |
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External view: link file format: .flv (23 MB) |
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Joseph & Valerie Wilson/Scenes from the Hearing |
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Joseph & Valerie Wilson |
Henry Waxman |
Valerie Plame & the photographers |
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Video Credits Background 1) Former CIA employee Valerie Plame Wilson is sworn in during her
testimony at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on
Capitol Hill - March 16th, 2007 - Larry Downing/Reuters; Joseph & Valerie
Wilson/Scenes from the Hearing 1) Former CIA agent Valerie
Plame and her husband Joseph Wilson arrive for the Bloomberg News after-party
following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington. - April 29th,
2006 - Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; 2) House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.,
questions former CIA operative Valerie Plame during a committee hearing on
Capitol Hill in Washington. - March 16th, 2007 - Susan
Walsh/Associated Press; 3) Former CIA
employee Valerie Plame Wilson appears at a House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. - March 16th,
2007 - Jason Reed/Reuters; |
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