WP: With Career Derailed, Plame Likely to Leave CIA

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801172.html

With Career Derailed, Plame Likely to Leave CIA

By Richard Leiby
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 28, 2005; 2:39 PM

What's next for Valerie Plame?

Lost in the din of the leak scandal that has consumed Washington is the very personal impact on the gracious, willowy CIA operative at its center. Plame, the wife of former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and arguably the most famous spy in the world, is not likely to stay at the CIA, some acquaintances say.

With her career derailed, Plame, 42, the mother of 5-year-old twins, hasn't publicly signaled her plans. But privately she has said that she feels she has no future at the spy agency where she has worked for 20 years.

"She really wants to be with her kids . . . to be that mom," her friend Jane Honikman said last night.

Although Plame has been under "tremendous stress" as the subject of global publicity and political spin, Honikman added, "she has a good sense of humor still and a wonderful, charming ability to look on the bright side."

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1. Sounds like a good basis for a civil suit, lost wages claim.

:-)