Retired CIA officer: Quit saying the Valerie Plame leak was a big deal already

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Washington Examiner:

Retired CIA officer: Quit saying the Valerie Plame leak was a big deal already
By: MARK HEMINGWAY
Commentary Staff Writer
11/15/10 3:00 PM EST

As you’ve probably heard, there’s a big Hollywood movie in theaters, Fair Game, purporting to tell the story of CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson’s contretemps with the Bush administration after her supposedly covert identity was leaked to the press. (Note that this is really the second movie about the Plame affair, if you count the thinly fictionalized version.) In any event, at least one 31 year veteran of the CIA officer is sick of people making Plame out to be some kind of folk hero and wrote the following letter to the Washington Post over the weekend:

In 1978, my CIA affiliation was exposed by Philip Agee in his book “Dirty Work II.” I’m nothing special; more than a few colleagues have been exposed at one time or another. I went on to serve nearly 34 years.