Ex-CIA (Valerie Plame Wilson) agent comes home

[sabra]

Source: Daily Collegian

Valerie Plame Wilson sat and chatted with friends from her McElwain Hall days Friday in Hintz Alumni Center -- a normal Homecoming activity for most alumni.

But for Wilson, this year's Homecoming Grand Marshal, it was a victory of sorts.

After a "crazy couple of years" spent living with the aftermath of the leak of her identity as a covert Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent to the press, Wilson said it was refreshing to feel that the controversy surrounding her name has passed.

"We feel that we've been through the fire, to be able to do things like come back to Penn State and enjoy Homecoming," she said.

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"It was extremely disturbing," she said. "As a CIA agent, you acknowledge you might be betrayed by a foreign country. You're not prepared that your identity might be betrayed by your own country for their own political agenda. I have nothing but contempt for the people that were involved in this."

After braving a power outage at Penn State President Graham Spanier's house caused by Thursday's inclement weather and sitting in the president's box for Saturday's Homecoming game, Wilson now finds herself hosting Spanier and his wife at her Santa Fe home. Wilson brought her children to PSU for the first time this weekend. She exposed them to college life and explained what fraternities and sororities are, she said. At Friday's ice cream social, her son Trevor had the Nittany Lion mascot sign his green arm cast, the result of an injury during a soccer match. Her family has been through a lot, she said.

"They tried to destroy us," she said. "We survived."

Read more: http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2009/10/19/excia_agent_comes_home.aspx

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Valerie Plame Wilson, the homecoming parade grand marshal, waves at the crowd Friday night. Plame is a 1985 PSU graduate.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Very Nice Move Penn State

All the best to you and your family Valerie. Its so sad when people in our country activate their conservative values. Just about every time someone gets hurt when that happens.

[Kolesar]

2. It's Groundhog Day already?

:shrug:

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, sabra.

[classysassy]

4. How did

Joe Pa, a big bush supporter react to her being there?.

[jaksavage]

5. She deserves the biggest apology.

We used to hang people who betrayed our democracy...

[rickford66]

6. Go Lions

I was at the game on Saturday. I had no idea she was there. If I knew, I would have gone down on Friday to see her in the parade.