Some notes and the copy of the 2000 Who's Who notice Wilson put in naming his wife Valerie Elise Plame....... As I've noted before, one has to have the info (and the money) to Who's Who at least 6 months BEFORE publication of the books....WHO does Wilson think he is kidding....and ditto, all the yahoos who don't bother reading anything. The actual clipping is listed on the link...I typed the words from the clipping....
While officially named "Valerie Wilson," she has been better known in the media by her maiden name, Plame. The convention has been to refer to Valerie Wilson as "Plame," while "Wilson" refers to Joe Wilson. The New York Times reported on 5 July 2005, that her "husband said she has used her married name both at work and in her personal life since their 1998 marriage." Real estate records corroborate this. Joe Wilson told NBC's Today on July 14, 2005, "My wife's name is Wilson, it's Mrs. Joseph Wilson. It is Valerie Wilson." Robert Novak printed her maiden name, Plame, which he claims he easily could have retrieved from Joseph Wilson's Who's Who in America entry, since Novak referenced that publication as a source of information on Joseph Wilson and his wife.
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Monday, October 31, 2005
Before Novak, The Joe Wilson Speech that Made Clear His Agenda
** The June 2003 Joe Wilson Speech You Are Not Supposed to Hear! **
ONE MONTH BEFORE ROBERT NOVAK WROTE HIS COLUMN, AMBASSADOR JOSEPH WILSON LAID OUT HIS AGENDA AGAINST THE US ADMINISTRATION AND ISRAEL AT THE LEFTIST 2003 IRAQ FORUM CONFERENCE,
AUDIO HERE (40:38 in duration)
It is not shocking that this is not the only place where Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are listed together. Here is their entry in the "Who's Who in America" from 2002.
[KLP note: The actual Who's Who clipping is shown online: I have just typed the words as shown ]
WILSON, JOSEPH CHARLES, IV, ambassador; b. Bridgeport, Conn, Nov 6,1949, s. Joseph Charles III and Phyllis (Pinnell) W.; m. Susan Dale Otchis, Apr. 27, 1973 (div. 1986); m. Valerie Elise Plame, Apr. 3, 1998; children: Sabrina Cecile, Joseph Charles, Trevor Rolph, Samantha Finnell Diana. BA in History, U. Calif, Santa Barbara, 1972. Fgn. svc. officer Dept of State, Washington, 1976-98; congl. fellow Am. Polit. Sci. Assn, 1985-86; dep. chief of mission Am. AEmbassy, Bujumbura, Burundi, 1982-85, Brazzaville, Congo, 1986-88, Baghdad, Iraq, 1989-91; amb. Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, 1992-95; polit. adv. to Commdr. in Chief U.S. Armed Forces Europe, 1995-97; spl. asst. to pres,sr dir. for African affairs Nat. Security Coun, Washington, 1997-98; pres. JC Wilson Internat. Ventures, 1998--. Recipient Disting. Alumni award U. Calif. Santa Barbara, 1991, Comdr. Order of Equatorial Star govt. Gaaabon award, 1995, Disting. Def. Dept Civilian award, 1997, named....(con't in Who's Who 2002)
"Copyright (c) 2002 by Reed Elseivier, Inc."
On August 5, 2005 Kevin Aylward from Wizbang found this out about Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson (via Instapundit):
Melvin Schuetz from Baylor's Moody Library forwarded Joseph Wilson's bio from the 2003 edition of Who's Who in America [Volume 2 (L-Z)]. He notes:
Wilson's entry carries over about 5 lines to the next column, which is why it cuts off in mid-sentence at the end. The relevant text is "m. Valerie Elise Plame, Apr. 3, 1998," which not only appears in the 2003 edition, but ALL editions from 1999-2005!
So, via Who's Who, the name "Valerie Plame" has been associated publicly with Joe Wilson since the Clinton era - nice secret... ***
I'm over generalizing here, but it seem like there wasn't an outing of an agent until two non-secret bits of information were combined.Joseph Wilson's wife's maiden name, most would now agree, was not a secret. That Wilson worked at the CIA was not widely known, but it was hardly a secret [See Cliff May at NRO and Just One Minute]. That Wilson's wife was (or had been) a covert operative was only known to (if reports are to be believed) the Cuban government and perhaps those receiving information form Aldrich Ames, but it was still a secret. Novak puts two pieces of non-secret information together and gets this flashpoint.
But how did that combination "out" a covert agent? It turns out the the Valerie Plame name (remember, according to many commenters her name's no big deal) was her cover. If her cover name was Valerie Jones how exactly would Novak's column as it was written have "outed" her? It wouldn't have. As former federal prosecJosephoesph DiGenoa contends it sure looks like the CIA didn't exactly bust a nut to "take every conceivable step to protect this person's identity."
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The WaPo discusses the Plame/Wilson and Who's Who notation as well...
Side Issue in the Plame Case: Who Sent Her Spouse to Africa?
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 11, 2005; Page A08
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