Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government

if you are interested in whatever happened to those weapons, the book is a great historical account of that time period when officials of our government got up in front of the world at the UN and swore that Iraq had weapons of Mass Destruction. UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter tried to tell the world there were none and he tells in interviews how he was ordered to say otherwise and when he would not, he was outed big time. Valerie did redact parts of the text in the manuscript and that was a disappointment but she explained her reasoning. This was one brave lady considering the pressure put on her by the government, the press and even her friends and acquaintances because she would not go along with the narrative..

Fair Game, authored by the now famous Valerie Plame Wilson, is a book that shows the courage of the author and the lack of it by the CIA toadies who buckled to White House demands. Reading the book is a frustrating experience because of the HUGE amount of redactions incurred by the CIA. Yet you cannot put it down, but instead turn the next page. The reader's understanding of the terror-filled experiences of the Wilson's causes a backlash of the CIA intended result. Instead of developing suspicion of the Wilson's, implied by the omissions (redactions), the reader is sympathetic and supportive of their roles. The detail Ms. Wilson includes in her writing is amazing. Not only does she tell us what little she can about her job at the CIA, and clarify the falsehoods that have publicly been put into the mix, she covers details of her personal life, giving the reader a unique perspective. Of course, as you are reading about the birth of her twins, battling post-partum depression along with the minutiae of day to day living, you cannot help but ask what possible national security could be unleashed through the telling of those details. Yet, there they were, redaction after redaction, while she is writing of breast feeding. Please give me a break!!!! The fascinating and thorough recollection of the events along with the trials and tribulations experienced by this couple is unmatched anywhere. I would strongly recommend this book simply for the knowledge of what an out-of-control government can do. The Afterword portion of this book is the redeeming aspect because journalist, Laura Rozen, fills in the blanks with material that has been published, approved and is general knowledge. She includes information on Plame's career (which was not included in the text) and other fill-in-the-blanks data. This reader is overjoyed that this book saw the light of day and appreciates the courage of Ms. Plame that it took to achieve.

This is a vital story that needs to be told. For the first time in recent history, the lives of loyal Americans and the people in other countries they worked with were put at risk solely for the benefit of a political agenda.Two solid Americans were doing their duty--one, Valerie Plame, as a covert operative for the CIA and the other, her husband Joe WIlson, having served as an ambassador for the State Department--are used as political fodder because the contents of a report Joe Wilson wrote failed to support the political agenda of those occupying the White House.White House operatives at the highest levels worked behind the scenes--often using members of the media too desperate for sensationalized stories--to destroy the careers and lives of both Valerie Plame and her husband Joe WIlson.Much of the story has been played out in the media but hearing it directly from Valerie Plame is a part of the story that seems to have been missing from the news stories.While the book is interesting, it became very distracting on the CDs to listen to the bleeped out sections of her text that were redacted by the CIA. Even though there's an independent explanation at the end delineating these redactions that Ms. Plame could not legally include, it was distracting nonetheless. Even with the CIA finally stepping in to protect some of their own (after throwing her under the bus), I would have thought there might be a way to amend the text to get most of the message across without the bleeps on the CDs or the blacked out sections in the book.

Plame-Wilson's book is a superb expose of this administration's trampling of the Constitution, our troops, and anyone else that dares speak truth to power. BRAVO for Valerie's courage and resolute determination. We need more American heros like Valerie and Joe Wilson. My order arrived quickly in good condition.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~WARNING: Due to presidential executive orders and signing statements, and provisions passed by the previous Republican-controlled Congress, the National Security Agency may have read this posting, as well as and any other private correspondence of mine, and may listen to my private phone conversations without warrant, warning, or notice, and certainly without probable cause. They may also arrest me without telling me of any charges against me, even transport me outside the United States, and hold me secretly and indefinitely in an undisclosed location without notifying my wife or relatives, and deny me access to an attorney. They may take my property under the executive order of July 17, 2007, never to be returned. They may torture me without fear of penalty or repercussions to them for their actions. They may do all these things to me, or to you, with little or no judicial or legislative oversight. This danger became ever more apparent, and ominous, on Sept. 19, 2007, when the U.S. Senate failed to reinstate habeas corpus as an inalienable right of American citizens. I/We have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current president and vice-president, and voting to remove all rubber-stamp Republicans and neocons from office, as well as other elected officials acting only in their own interests instead of those of the People and the Constitution, be they occupying local, state, or national positions of authority.

First hand Account. Excellent.

If you want to know just how illegal the 2003 Iraq war was, just read the lengths the Americans went to to spin the UN and everyone else into a conflict that remains unresolved and which destabilized the entire region.

Not as good as her husbands account in the "politics of truth"

Bello ed interessante. Storia avvincente di altissima attualità. C’è una leggera fiction che si alterna alla storia vera e la presenza di innumerevoli documenti secretati che rendono il tutto molto marketing ma comunque molto ben delineato nella sua trama storica.

ブッシュ政権時のCIA工作員の漏洩事件については何となくは知っていたが、本書はまさにそのCIA工作員による手記であり、映画にもなっている。 本書の前半は、筆者のCIA時代の回顧である。CIAにはいろいろなポストがあるが、筆者はその中の花形であるケース・オフィサー（工作員）であり、研修時代や海外赴任時代のエピソードは極めてエキサイティングであった。HUMINT（人的情報）に関心がある人は必読である。半ば以降は、イラク戦争前後の「情報の失敗」と、それに対する夫ジョセフの批判に起因する自己の身分のろうえいが扱われている。「情報の失敗」については類書も多いのでそれほど驚きは無かったが、後者の情報ろうえい事案については驚かされた。リビー副大統領次席補佐官が訴追されたことは知っていたが、カール・ローヴが黒幕と目されていたことや、日本でやけに有名になっているアーミテージも疑われていたことは知らなかった。ワシントン政治のどぎつさを垣間見ることができる。スパイ小説を超えるスリル、政治、インテリジェンス、恋愛、家族愛があり、筆者の人生を賭けた力作となっており、読み応え十分である。