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Valerie Plame On How She Felt Upon Learning That She'd Been 'Outed'
I read Robert Novak's column in the Washington Post on July 14, 2003, very early in the morning. Joe came in, put the paper on the bed and said, "Well, the SOB did it." I felt as if I'd been sucker-punched. You think about your family, your career, about your network, your assets, their physical security. How did he get my name? Why was he using my maiden name? It's a jumble. And it all happens in a fraction of an instant.
–Valerie Plame, discussing what went through her mind in the moment she realized her identity was exposed, thereby effectively ending her career in the CIA and public service. [People]
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Total BS. Several Washington journalists and pundits have pointed out that her employment at the CIA office in DC was well known. That's why noone was charged with "outing" a CIA agent. This is as much BS as the assertion that she hadn't recommended her husband for the Niger caper. She herself gave conflicting stories about that. In fact her own book says that her husband was livid when he saw her memo touting him for the job.