Fair Game , which tells the story of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. Joe Wilson, remember, was the former U.S. diplomat who exposed one of the many false claims made by the Bush administration in the lead-up to the war in Iraq. Valerie Plame is Wilson's wife, a covert CIA operative whose identity the Bush administration disclosed to reporters in an effort to retaliate against Wilson.
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The film is about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, but it's also about secrecy . The Bush administration gathers evidence to support its claim that Iraq presents an imminent threat to the United States and its allies. The intelligence is manipulated, and the evidence is false, but the public is told only the rotten conclusion — that Iraq has sought yellowcake uranium from Niger — and the public is of course not in any position to evaluate that claim, because the evidence to support it is secret. Joe Wilson exposes the truth ; he pierces the secrecy that conceals government misconduct. He's a whistleblower in the best sense of the word. But of course Joe Wilson isn't the only one in the film who pierces secrecy . When Joe Wilson exposes the truth about the yellowcake claim, the Bush administration decides to discredit him by exposing the truth about his wife . Joe Wilson has a secret, too, and the government exposes it. Lewis Libby and Karl Rove are whistleblowers in a different sense of the world. When they pierce secrecy, it is an extension of government misconduct that they're already engaged in.Get Politics Alerts - Huffington Post (blog)
