Valerie Plame, CIA Scooter Libby, Aluminum tubes, Iran ( and how does one man, her current husband, Joe Wilson, father 2 sets of twins with different wives?)
With Scooter Libby pardon in news today, Valerie Plane is all over TV giving interviews.
So who is she?
Valerie Elise Plame was born on August 13, 1963, on Elmendorf Air Force Base, in Anchorage, Alaska, to Diane (née McClintock) and Samuel Plame III.[1][2][3] Plame's paternal grandfather was Jewish, the son of a rabbi who emigrated from Ukraine; the original family surname was "Plamevotski".[4] The rest of Plame's family was Protestant (the religion in which Plame was raised); she was unaware of her grandfather having been Jewish until she was an adult.[4]
She graduated in 1981 from Lower Moreland High School, in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania,[5][6] and attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating with a B.A. in advertising in 1985.[7] While a student at Penn State, she joined Pi Beta Phi sorority[8] and worked for the business division of the Daily Collegian student newspaper.[
After graduating with a B.A. in advertising from Penn State in 1985, Plame was married to Todd Sesler, her college boyfriend.[7] In 1997, while she was working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Plame met former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV, "at a reception in Washington "…" at the residence of the Turkish Ambassador."[9] According to Wilson, because Plame was unable to reveal her CIA role to him on their first date, she told him that she was an energy trader in Brussels, and he thought at that time that she was "an up-and-coming international executive."[6] After they began dating and became "close," Plame revealed her employment with the CIA to Wilson.[6][10] They were married on April 3, 1998, Plame's second marriage and Wilson's third.[11]
Professionally and socially, she has used variants of her name. Professionally, while a covert CIA officer, she used her given first name and her maiden surname, "Valerie Plame." Since leaving the CIA, as a speaker, she has used the name "Valerie Plame Wilson",[1] and she is referred to by that name in the civil suit that the Wilsons brought against former and current government officials, Wilson v. Libby.[12] Socially, and in public records of her political contributions, since her marriage in 1998, she has used the name "Valerie E. Wilson."
At the time that they met, Wilson relates in his memoir, he was separated from his second wife Jacqueline; they divorced after 12 years of marriage so that he could marry Plame. His divorce had been "delayed because I was never in one place long enough to complete the process," though he and she had already been living separate lives since the mid-1990s.[9] Plame and Wilson are the parents of twins, Trevor Rolph, and Samantha Finnell Diana, born in January 2000. From his first marriage (1973–86), to Susan Dale Otchis, Wilson is also the father of another set of twins (also a boy and a girl), Sabrina Cecile and Joseph Charles, who were born in 1979.
Prior to the disclosure of her classified CIA identity, Valerie and Joe Wilson and their twins lived in The Palisades, a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on the fringe of Georgetown.[7] After she resigned from the CIA following the disclosure of her covert status, in January 2006, they moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico[13][14] where she serves as a consultant to the Santa Fe Institute. In a 2011 interview, Plame said she and Wilson had received threats while living in the D.C. metro area, and while she acknowledged an element of threat remains in their new home, the New Mexico location "tamps down the whole swirl."[15]
A former senior diplomat in Athens remembered Plame in her dual role and also recalled that she served as one of the "control officers" coordinating the visit of President George H. W. Bush to Greece and Turkey in July 1991.[27] After the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the CIA sent her first to the London School of Economics and then the College of Europe, in Bruges, for Master's degrees. After earning the second degree, she stayed on in Brussels, where she began her next assignment under cover as an "energy consultant" for Brewster-Jennings.[7] Beginning in 1997, Plame's primary assignment was shifted to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.[28]
She married Wilson in 1998 and gave birth to their twins in 2000,[29] and resumed travel overseas in 2001, 2002, and 2003 as part of her cover job. She met with workers in the nuclear industry, cultivated sources, and managed spies.[30][citation needed] One project in which she was involved was ensuring that Iran did not acquire nuclear weapons.[31]
During this time, part of her work concerned the determination of the use of aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq.[
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