Valerie Plame agrees to book deal; tenative title: "Fair Game"

[sabra]

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/entertainment/14513232.htm

Valerie Plame agrees to book deal

NEW YORK - Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative whose unmasking led to a federal investigation and the indictment of a top vice presidential aide, has agreed to a book deal with the Crown Publishing Group.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but two sources close to the negotiations said the deal was in the low seven figures. Several publishers had competed for the memoir, scheduled to come out in the fall of 2007 and tentatively titled "Fair Game."

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"She will tell her whole story, absolutely," Crown's publisher and senior vice president, Steve Ross, said Friday. "This book will be the first time the public will get to hear about her work and the surprising role she had in intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the war in Iraq."

Ross also said that Plame would tell of "being a high ranking woman in the male-dominated intelligence community." He said Plame would write the book herself and that "one of the most pleasant surprises was the quality of her craftsmanship and the richness of her storytelling" in the book proposal she submitted.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Take that Rove!

[C_U_L8R]

2. What a great chess move

Bush cannot protest or try to censor this book
without giving credibility to the importance
and sensitivity of her work. A masterful move !

can't wait for checkmate.

[hwmnbn]

5. Doesn't she have to submit the manuscript........

for vetting by the CIA? Isn't that some kind of rule?

[C_U_L8R]

7. exactly

and if they censor anything.. it gives pretty good credibility to Ms Plame's story

[dipsydoodle]

3. Fair Game

could be play on words - good looking bird that Cheney has yet to shoot.

[emulatorloo]

8. "Rove called Chris Matthews and told him Wilson's wife was "fair game' "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8445696/site/newsweek/

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In early October 2003, NEWSWEEK reported that immediately after Novak's column appeared in July, Rove called MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews and told him that Wilson's wife was "fair game." But White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters at the time that any suggestion that Rove had played a role in outing Plame was "totally ridiculous." On Oct. 10, McClellan was asked directly if Rove and two other White House aides had ever discussed Valerie Plame with any reporters. McClellan said he had spoken with all three, and "those individuals assured me they were not involved in this."

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[Bozita]

4. Hah! Plame's 7 figure contract makes her the envy of every Repug on Earth

I'm looking forward to the book.

[Disturbed]

6. The CIA must vet the book before it gets pressed.

Who in the CIA does the vetting?

[emulatorloo]

9. & think of the venom the repug talking heads will spew about her contract

EOM