Valerie Plame Wilson Fights Scandal With 'Fair Game' (heard this on NPR today)

[babsbunny]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130701405

Seven years after Valerie Plame Wilson was exposed as a CIA operative, the political scandal is hitting the big screen.

Fair Game tells the story of how Plame Wilson's covert identity was exposed after her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, criticized the Bush administration's claims that Iraq sought nuclear weapons material from Niger. Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was later convicted for lying about his role in the leak.

The Wilsons saw the film for the first time on Tuesday night at the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Md. They tell NPR's Neal Conan that it wasn't easy to watch.

Plame Wilson, played by Naomi Watts in the film, says it was "mortifying" to be a suddenly be a public person, forced into the spotlight after her outing. And because she stayed with the CIA for years after being exposed, she couldn't actually talk about it.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. Interesting title

Makes it sound like she had anything to do with the "scandal". Maybe it's just poorly worded.

Anyway, I may camp out to see this movie!

[WhiteTara]

3. she was called Fair Game by

Scooter and Kkkarl. Which is where the name came from.

[davidwparker]

2. I heard about this last night on The Last Word (I think).

MSNBC for sure. He was interviewing them.

I will be seeing it if it is my area.