- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed edition (5 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1416537619
- ISBN-13: 978-1416537618
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 693,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The object of the CIA leak case and the resulting conviction of the Vice-President's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, Valerie Wilson, has spoken publicly only twice since she was outed in July, 2003. Now she tells not only the real story behind the leak, but describes her life at the CIA and what happened when her cover was blown.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book won't win any literary prizes but, if one sticks with it, any reader's anger and admiration will rise as the later passages pass. Yes, Valerie Plame's account of her early years at the CIA is heavily redacted (many early chapter paragraphs and references were blanked out by the US Govt./CIA) but enough remains to estabish her "bona fides" as a covert operations officer. From page 90 onwards (with little redaction) we learn how she became involved in gaining and assessing the intel on Iraqi WMD (or lack of WMD). And then Valerie and her husband found that the "truth" and the "White House" are like oil and water! What happened next? Read the book!
You can find a lot of self-serving autobiographies out there. But maybe I'm a mug. I thought that this was honest stuff from the heart. It's not sugary or sentimental. The key sentences stike the reader as outrages against the Constitution and the American people. My biggest issue was that, as shared by the author, we still don't know how high in the White House the "fair game" term originated. We need another whistle-blower or twenty to give us the full extent of the lies and retribution dumped upon the honest patriots in this case.
Just another point: many journalist come out of this book smelling of equine rear-end material! I thought they were on the side of the good guys. Silly me eh?
You can find a lot of self-serving autobiographies out there. But maybe I'm a mug. I thought that this was honest stuff from the heart. It's not sugary or sentimental. The key sentences stike the reader as outrages against the Constitution and the American people. My biggest issue was that, as shared by the author, we still don't know how high in the White House the "fair game" term originated. We need another whistle-blower or twenty to give us the full extent of the lies and retribution dumped upon the honest patriots in this case.
Just another point: many journalist come out of this book smelling of equine rear-end material! I thought they were on the side of the good guys. Silly me eh?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Bush administration's attempt to render the book unreadable fails,but only just.It has many parts in the early chapters which are heavily sensored for malicious rather than meritous reasons and this makes for some difficult continuity but persevere because the full story of the appalling treatment of Mrs Plame Wilson and her husband deserves the widest possible audience to fully appreciate the distortion of power over which the administration prevailed.
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I first heard of Valerie Wilson when she was interviewed by John Humphries on Radio 4, and was very impressed by her performance.
The first two chapters of her book are, or rather, were quite good until the redactions were applied. It is clear that many of the redactions were put in place out of spite and for no reason of security. Those two chapters pretty well cover her career story; the rest is effectively the record of the arguments that followed.
The redaction process continues pretty well all the way through and it makes for difficult reading. What makes it even more difficult is the fact that - in the hardback version I bought - the pages are not in order. All goes well as far as Page 52. The next pages are 325-356. It then resumes at Page 85 to the end. Pages 352-356 are repeated later in correct sequence. Pages 53-84 are nowhere to be found. I wrote to the publisher (Simon & Schuster), but received no reply.
I remember only what I could piece together of the first two chapters; even with redactions, they were interesting, but overall a little disappointing.
A dedicated public servant was let down by the White House, the CIA and finally, by her publisher.
The first two chapters of her book are, or rather, were quite good until the redactions were applied. It is clear that many of the redactions were put in place out of spite and for no reason of security. Those two chapters pretty well cover her career story; the rest is effectively the record of the arguments that followed.
The redaction process continues pretty well all the way through and it makes for difficult reading. What makes it even more difficult is the fact that - in the hardback version I bought - the pages are not in order. All goes well as far as Page 52. The next pages are 325-356. It then resumes at Page 85 to the end. Pages 352-356 are repeated later in correct sequence. Pages 53-84 are nowhere to be found. I wrote to the publisher (Simon & Schuster), but received no reply.
I remember only what I could piece together of the first two chapters; even with redactions, they were interesting, but overall a little disappointing.
A dedicated public servant was let down by the White House, the CIA and finally, by her publisher.
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Heavily censored, but makes some powerful points
Because of censorship by the CIA and the US courts, this book reads like an MP's redacted expenses claim. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Marshall Lord
An incomplete purchase!
Large chunks of this book are redacted making it absolutely unreadable and sorely disappointing. I wish I had had access to this information previous to my purchase. Read more
Published 13 months ago by DOLO042011
no Jane Bond...
Unfortunatley, this book suffers from an enormous amount of redacting. I can understand why it was left in (to make a point? Read more
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