Valerie Plame’s Modern Odyssey (and Cautionary Tale) of Speaking Truth to Power
8 min readNov 1, 2023
On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s now historic op-ed, “What I Didn’t Find in Africa,” appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative.
