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Home Front: Politix
Ex-spy Valerie Plame eyes run for Congress in New Mexico
2019-04-07
[Politico] ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ‐ Former CIA operative, author and activist Valerie Plame said Friday she is considering a 2020 run for an open U.S. congressional seat in New Mexico.

Plame told The Associated Press she is spending time with residents and will make a decision soon. The seat is currently held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, who is stepping down to run for U.S. Senate.

"Right now, I am going around and meeting with people," said Plame, a Democrat. "I have a lot to learn and I would like another opportunity to serve my country."

Plame had previously told media outlets she was considering the U.S. House seat or a bid for the U.S. Senate but told The AP on Friday she as looking at the House to "continue Ben Ray’s legacy."

Plame became a national figure after her identity as a CIA operative was leaked by an official in President George W. Bush’s administration in 2003 in an effort to discredit her then-husband Joe Wilson.
Should actually read "alleged" identity.
Wilson is a former diplomat who criticized Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. Plame left the agency in 2005.

Posted by:Besoeker

#12  I skimmed this piece, zeroed in on the neocon criticism, and shared it without seeing and considering the rest.

SOP for CIA anal-ysts. When they aren't just making sh*t up from scratch.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-07 17:07  

#11  It's too bad we can't bring Wild Bill back from the dead and put him in charge of the CIA. I suspect in a month, he'd have it cleaned out.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-04-07 17:01  

#10  #Wilson was tired of her sh!t by 2017. The rest of us were tired of her sh!t long before that.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-04-07 16:17  

#9  I never get tired of the irony of lefties in love with the CIA...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-07 12:44  

#8  'CIA operative'

Oh yeah - Ima having a James Bond flashback all of a sudden...
Posted by: Raj   2019-04-07 11:34  

#7  Good link, Frank G. I’d forgotten that President Trump pardoned Scooter Libby, convicted for a process crime — lying under questioning by the FBI about a crime he did not commit.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-04-07 10:10  

#6  She’s a perfect fit for the Democratic Party in its current form. From her Wikipedia page:

In September 2017, Plame tweeted a link to an article from the website Unz Review posted by retired CIA officer Philip Giraldi, titled "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars", repeating the title of the article in her tweet.[84][85] The article argued that certain "American Jews who lack any shred of integrity" should be given a special label when appearing on television. Amid criticism, Plame first defended her posts, replying on Twitter that "Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish."[84][86][87] Within two hours she deleted her initial post and apologized, tweeting "OK folks, look, I messed up. I skimmed this piece, zeroed in on the neocon criticism, and shared it without seeing and considering the rest. I missed gross undercurrents to this article & didn't do my homework on the platform this piece came from. Now that I see it, it's obvious. Apologies all. There is so much there that's problematic AF and I should have recognized it sooner. Thank you for pushing me to look again. I'm not perfect and make mistakes. This was a doozy. All I can do is admit them, try to be better, and read more thoroughly next time, Ugh."[88] Ramesh Ponnuru and Caleb Ecarma have argued that the incident followed a pattern of posting content critical of Israel, neoconservatives, and making jokes about "rich Jews".[89][90] She had tweeted at least eight articles from the same website before,[91] in which she previously retweeted links to conspiracy theories of 'dancing Israelis' being behind the 9/11 attacks.[92]
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-04-07 09:53  

#5  Even Joe "YellowCake" Wilson got tired of her shit
Posted by: Frank G   2019-04-07 09:47  

#4  One thing about Val, she never talks about other people.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-04-07 09:00  

#3  She was the spouse of a sitting US Ambassador. How much of a clandestini agent could she have possibly been ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-04-07 08:55  

#2  Plame became a national figure after her identity as a CIA operative was leaked by an official in President George W. Bush’s administration in 2003 in an effort to discredit her then-husband Joe Wilson.

Fake news repeated. It was done by a member of the Legacy Infotainment Enterprises.

Initially, she mentioned the Senate seat being vacated by the incumbent (D-NM), but I guess the party bosses had a talk with her to lower her expectations to guaranteed safe district house seat.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-04-07 08:51  

#1  My book royalties suck! I need work.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-04-07 08:15  

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