http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/10/wcia10.xmlAmerica's most famous spy was doing her best to stay out of the unwelcome limelight last week. "I'm just a mom getting dinner ready for my kids," Valerie Wilson said with a smile at her hilltop home in one of Washington's best neighbourhoods. "You better talk to my husband."
The scene was deceptively calm, for the Wilsons are at the centre of one of America's biggest political controversies which, last week, witnessed dramatic new developments.
As well as being a mother, Mrs Wilson operated undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency for nearly two decades, including a stint in London. Most recently, she worked on weapons proliferation issues while posing as an analyst for a CIA front company.
"Any senior government official who participates in such a campaign is engaged in an outrageous abuse of power," he said as he drew on his cigar. "It is very clear that Karl Rove has been part of this, as evidenced by his phone call to Chris Matthews
in which he asserted that my wife was fair game.
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