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Valerie Plame looks at a fragile, scary world
SANTA FE, N.M. — Watching Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine this summer, I couldn’t help connecting the dots from one prickly,...
Winthrop Quigley, Albuquerque Journal
Sep 19, 2014
Would You Rather Not Know?
One year after Edward Snowden’s leaks, we’re better off for the debate he started. One year ago today, the Guardian first reported on the...
Valerie Plame
Jun 6, 2014
My Turn: An evening with Valerie and Joe
It’s rare to meet real people behind the headlines. But a few weeks ago, Valerie Plame and her husband, Joe Wilson, traveled to my new...
Daniel A. Brown
Feb 22, 2014
Was American hostage Bob Levinson captured while on a secret Mission?
In 2007, it’s believed Bob Levinson was taken hostage while traveling in Iran. He has now been held captive overseas longer than any...
CNN 360 Interview with Anderson Cooper
Dec 14, 2013


Valerie Plame - an Interview
After Valerie Plame’s cover as a CIA operative was blown in 2003, ending her espionage career, she had to reinvent herself. The former...
Amy Sutherland, Boston Globe
Nov 17, 2013
Valerie Plame’s dispatch from her river of no return
Blowback is a spy story co-written by Valerie Plame with the thriller novelist Sarah Lovett, featuring a CIA operative, Vanessa Pierson,...
Miller Hudson, The Colorado Statesman
Nov 5, 2013

Lost assets: Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett’s “Blowback”
Valerie Plame, the former CIA covert-operations officer, will tell you she never lost an asset (the CIA term for a human information...
Bill Kohlhaase, Santa Fe New Mexican
Nov 2, 2013

Once Fair Game Plame Delivers Blowback
She never wanted to be famous. In fact, her life was to be one in shadows, a double life of secrets and yes, intrigue. The stuff of spy...
Charles Karel Bouley, The Huffington Post
Oct 18, 2013
Valerie Plame Wilson on privacy versus national security
Think that the National Security Agency has too much power? That it’s snooping too much into your (and everyone else’s) personal affairs?...
William Fietzer
Oct 17, 2013
In Valerie Plame's 'Blowback,' Reality Grittier than Fiction
The 2010 drama "Fair Game," starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, catapulted the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame onto the silver...
Penelope Poulou, VOA News
Oct 11, 2013


‘Blowback’ starts new franchise series by ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett
Valerie Plame, as all true political junkies will recall, rocketed from anonymity to celebrity a decade ago thanks toa truly bizarre...
Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post
Oct 7, 2013


Plame takes issue with those women spy characters on the big and small screen
What really ticks off former CIA agent Valerie Plame? (Hint: it’s not Karl Rove .) It’s the paper-thin — or overwrought — lady-spy-type...
Al Kamen, The Washington Post
Sep 26, 2013
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