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Valerie Plame
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 13
,
1963
CIA
Country
Intelligence
Think
World
You
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William Arthur Ward
I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.
Valerie Plame
Home
CIA
People
Girl
Think
Honestly
Our
Out
Security
Poster
Unbalanced
About
Point
Feet
Concern
Lot
Front
Front Door
Door
Agency
Asked
Certain
Certain Point
Sudden
Washington
Residence
Largest
Street
Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.
Valerie Plame
You
Security
Paramount
Some
Threats
Betrayal
Parent
Over
Like
Concern
Course
Felt
Were
Provide
Very
Frightening
Any
Children
Again
Agency
Declined
Really
Your
Painful
Credible
Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.
Valerie Plame
Service
Intelligence
Strong
Feelings
Wikileaks
About
Classified
Classified Information
Firm
Firm Believer
Am
Ambivalent
Regarding
Information
Believer
Profound
Need
We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
Valerie Plame
Good
Made
Some
More
New
Lot
Beginnings
Done
Start
Treaty
We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that everyone else will fall in line.
Valerie Plame
Will
Fall
Think
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Way
States
Russia
Naive
Because
Reduce
Line
Arsenal
Just
Just Because
Agree
United
United States
It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
Valerie Plame
Great
You
Think
Everything
Say
Some
Perfect
Idea
Weird
Always
Got
We have known Hillary Clinton both professionally and personally for close to 20 years, dating back to before President Bill Clinton's first trip to Africa in 1998 - a trip that they both acknowledge changed their lives and gave considerable meaning to their post-White House years and to the activities of the Clinton Foundation.
Valerie Plame
First
Before
Changed
President
Gave
Back
Considerable
Trip
Both
Dating
Hillary
House
Hillary Clinton
Known
Years
Clinton
Close
Africa
Acknowledge
Personally
Meaning
Bill
Activities
Professionally
Foundation
Lives
After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.
Valerie Plame
Hope
Election
President
Mark
Obama
Would
Partisan
End
After
Widespread
Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
Valerie Plame
Country
Our
Over
Hillary
She
Proud
Years
Stood
Us
Stand
Many
Now
Her
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
Better
Holding
Terribly
Gotten
Confrontational
Ground
After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.
Valerie Plame
Time
Myself
Me
Speak
Overcome
Long
Long Time
First
Took
Complete
Could
Shock
After
Happened
Eventually
Resigned
Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
Valerie Plame
Me
CIA
Matter
Important
Honey
Totally
Tend
Environment
Blending
Most
Most Important Thing
Looks
Does
Important Thing
Officers
Any
The Most Important
Hollywood
Working
Trap
Profession
Thing
Portray
She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
Valerie Plame
Darkest
White
White House
Kind
Joe
Through
Name
Days
Leak
House
She
Course
Clinton
Very
Us
Worked
Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
Valerie Plame
Work
Hate
Down
Nuts
Those
Out
Admit
Horse
Hillary
She
Policy
Gets
Substance
Show
Figures
Even
Bolts
So many times, genuine health workers and genuine NGO folks are really just trying to help other humans in whatever capacity they can. But they are perceived as being CIA, and therefore, it blocks their effectiveness.
Valerie Plame
Health
CIA
Whatever
Other
Folks
Perceived
Genuine
Blocks
Effectiveness
Times
Trying
Just
Being
Capacity
Really
Workers
Help
Many
Therefore
Humans
I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
Valerie Plame
CIA
Book
Colleague
Relieved
He
Stuff
Said
Got
Did
Former
Bob
Event
Right
The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
Valerie Plame
Truth
Truth Is
Long
Weapons
Safe
Exist
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.
Valerie Plame
Environmental
Mistake
Weapons
Devastation
Altogether
Caused
Testing
Malice
Very
Human
Whether
Them
Reason
Nuclear
Eliminate
Nuclear Weapons
Need
According to the 2000 'Report of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation,' the long-lasting effects of nuclear testing can be qualified in simple scientific terms: 'Radiation exposure can damage living cells, causing death in some of them and modifying others.'
Valerie Plame
Death
Simple
Living
Others
Some
Atomic
Long-Lasting
Qualified
Terms
Scientific
Causing
Testing
According
Effects
Report
Committee
Cells
Them
Modifying
Radiation
Exposure
Nuclear
Damage
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