Fair Game: Hardly
Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson’s story is now part of the history of the Iraq War. Sadly, reading her memoir “Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House ” is like trying to listen to a radio broadcast in which the signal keeps fading in and out,” says Bloomberg news reporter Charles Taylor. Plame, whose undercover identity was revealed after a carefully orchestrated campaign emanating from the offices of Vice President Dick Cheney, has produced a confusing read where censors from the CIA deleted “sentences, whole batches of pages, even chapter titles.”
In places, it is so hard to follow that when Plame first refers to her life with “Joe” — her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson — it takes a second to realize that the story of their meeting has been expurgated. (Fortunately, an 80-page afterword by journalist Laura Rozen fills in as much as possible from the public record and from her own reporting) rendering this a fascinating and “necessary” read.
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