Pastepot princesses are important, too By Wesley Pruden
The Bear on Nov 30 2005 at 5:44 am | Filed under: Need to Know
Who was Valerie Plame? The jokes mocking the media myth that she was Mata Hari or Belle Boyd, a sultry princess of espionage whose “covert” identity was blown by Scooter Libby if not Karl Rove (or the shampoo girl at a beauty shop in a strip mall in Silver Spring, Md.), may miss the point.
You may have noticed that the high-decibel media frenzy, with all the manufactured hysteria over a story that nobody but the Washington media elites and other Bush-bashers are paying attention to, has subsided considerably since it now appears that Scooter is not the “villain,” such as the villain may be — and maybe Valerie Plame and her husband, the eminent former ambassador to Lower Slobbovia, aren’t very important, anyway.
Nobody is quite sure what she and the ambassador actually did, beyond getting their names and pictures in the glossies, but some intelligence operatives are concerned that she has given the important grunt work of intelligence-collecting a bad name.
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