Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wilson & Laura Rozen

Author:Valerie Plame Wilson & Laura Rozen [Wilson, Valerie Plame & Rozen, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: United States, Political, History, Biography & Autobiography, 21st Century
ISBN: 1416537627
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008-06-10T05:00:00+00:00

I turned over in bed, restless, kicked the sheets around, and realized Joe wasn’t next to me. The illuminated clock on the bedside table read 2:30 A.M. Joe liked to get up early and exercise, but this was ridiculous. I got out of bed, put on my robe, and went downstairs. I checked the dark TV room. No Joe. I went to see if he was on the computer in our home office. No Joe. I was getting worried. It was the middle of the night in the dead of winter and my husband was nowhere to be found. When I returned to the dark kitchen, an eerie blue light out on the deck caught my eye. I walked over and tugged open the door. An icy blast came into the room as my heart sank. There was Joe, wearing a puffy parka with the hood up, smoking a cigar. The blue light of his laptop computer illuminated his tired face.

I asked the obvious question, “What are you doing?” “Looking for real estate in New Zealand,” he answered—way too cheerfully for the hour. “Look at this beautiful oceanfront property in Napier, pretty cheap, too. What do you think?” His question cut to the quick of our piecemeal conversations over the last few months that had accelerated with Bush’s reelection. Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak appeared to have ground to a halt. My career was at a dead end and Joe’s didn’t look so promising, either. We had children to raise and couldn’t continue the way we were going. What were we going to do?

Our sense of outrage and alarm grew as we realized the country had to endure four more years of bad decisions. The administration was systematically destroying all the international institutions that had served our country and the world so well since the end of World War II. The credibility of the U.S. was at an all-time low. The neocon ideology, so pervasive in the corridors of power since 9/11, had yet to demonstrate that our war of choice in Iraq to “remake” the map of the Middle East would have the desired outcome. Our society was becoming more of “haves” and “have nots” with each passing year. The vaunted middle class, the backbone of this country, was under increasing pressures. Basic civil liberties were under attack. America no longer felt like our country—something neither of us had ever experienced before.

When Bush was pronounced the winner of the 2000 election courtesy of the Supreme Court’s decision to stop the ballot recount in Florida, Joe and I were upset. However, our concern was focused much more on the unprecedented and clearly partisan decision by the highest court in the land than on the election’s winner per se—even though it was someone we did not endorse. We reasoned that the country was at peace, the economy was chugging along just fine, and we liked Bush père, who had appointed Joe ambassador and with whom Joe enjoyed an occasional but sincere correspondence.

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