In discussing Ukraine whistleblower, former CIA officer Valerie Plame calls her own outing 'devastating'.
A former CIA operative whose name was publicly revealed by an official in the George W. Bush administration said being"unmasked" as part of partisan politics completely changed her life and, while the situation is different, she can sympathize with the whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
"Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called"Whistleblower," represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way," Trump tweeted in September. Valerie Plame said she doesn't consider herself or her former husband a whistleblower -- her husband, Joe Wilson, wrote an op-ed critical of the Iraq war with his name attached in 2003. He died earlier this year.
"For me, it was devastating. It felt like a punch in the gut. I loved my job, I was so proud to serve my country, I was working on the nuclear threat for the CIA. And through partisan politics, all of a sudden my name was out there," Plame told ABC News on Thursday as the controversy continued regarding calls to out the whistleblower's identity.
The revelation culminated in the conviction of Lewis"Scooter" Libby, then-Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2007 for lying to the FBI and obstructing justice in the investigation into the leak of Plame's identity. Libby's sentence was commuted by Bush and he was pardoned by President Donald Trump in April of last year.
Several lawmakers and the Ukraine whistleblower's attorneys have raised concerns about the safety of the whistleblower and his or her family and have said forcing their identity to become part of the impeachment inquiry could put them at unnecessary risk and scare away other potential whistleblowers.
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