Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Finished "Fair Game" Valerie Plame Wilson (Audiobook)

Fair Game by Valerie Plame Wilson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game:_My_Life_as_a_Spy,_My_Betrayal_by_the_White_House)

I finished the "valerie" part of the book - the afterword is long and interesting - it is nice to hear "unredacted" text and to hear how special an agent Valerie Wilson was before being exposed.  An elite part of a secretive organization - lots of dollars were wasted along with a career - maybe the dollars would appeal to the right.

Even with the irritating redaction beeps, it is worth reading about what happens when extreme politics infects democracy - the far right causes damage (McCarthy era, Nixon's Watergate problems, Reagan's Iran Contra, Bush Sr. seemed OK, Bush Jr. with Iraq - the far left may also cause problems, but hasn't been elected).  

I think this is a nice caution to remember why we have elections, and even why there are unions - when one side thinks it is in the "right" and the other side consists of non-valid opinions, bad things happen.  Nobody died in this story - Scooter Libby almost went to jail, but it certainly was a cautionary tale.

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