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...husband finishes a phone conversation in the living room. The house is open and clean, decorated with Oriental carpets and contemporary art. She apologizes. One resourceful reporter for the British Sunday Telegraph recently tracked down their address and arrived unannounced, and she's still angry. ?British journalists,? mutters Joseph Wilson as he enters the room. Plame pours him a soda water and cranberry juice, and they exchange details about the groceries they need...
...Wilson declines to say much about why his wife took the time off-?personal reasons,? he says. But he also says that her career has been hurt by the disclosure of her identity. ?There's a whole part of her career that she can no longer do,? says Wilson as he smokes a cigar on his back porch, with a view of the Washington Monument and planes coming down the Potomac River on final approach to Reagan National Airport. ?Professionally, obviously she can't work with the same amount of discretion she was able to work in before,? he adds...
...adversaries say Plame and Wilson are exaggerating the damage. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, said last week that Plame could hardly have been under deep cover if she was openly driving to work every day at CIA headquarters. ?She was done,? says one senior Republican Senate aide, when asked if Plame's career had been hurt. ?She'd had her two kids, she'd come back to headquarters. And how do you maintain your cover when your husband is saying I was sent on a mission...
...clear that Plame's relationship with her employers has been strained. Wilson says his wife tried to write an op-ed that would support his arguments against his critics, but that the CIA did not want it to be printed. ?She was told it might hinder her work and that it wouldn't advance Agency interests,? he says. ?Which I take to mean, 'might get us in hot water with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...
...Wilson dismisses the argument that Rove didn't name her, but said she was Wilson's wife. ?Valerie's name has been Valerie Wilson since we married in April of 1998,? he says, ?Her name is Valerie Wilson on her passport; it is Valerie Wilson on her credit cards; it's Valerie Wilson on the mortgage note for this house; and it's Valerie Wilson on her driver's license. So when you say 'Wilson's wife,' you have essentially identified Valerie Wilson, Mrs. Wilson...