Courtesy - The Sunday Leader - By Sumaya SamarasingheValeria Plame and Joe Wilson could be your regular suburban couple. He is a older than she is and seems to be handling most of the child-caring of their little twin boy and girl.
The husband is a retired diplomat and is attempting to set up new businesses while the younger wife flies around the world doing…well, let’s start again keeping in mind that the characters are real life persons.
This is no normal couple though their life just seems like a classic example of two persons trying to juggle the stresses of coordinating their professional and private demands. Valerie is a CIA operative whose area of expertise is non proliferation and Joe is a retired ambassador, expert on Western African Nations, who is sent to Niger on Valerie’s ‘suggestion’ to investigate if the allegations that Iraq is buying yellowcake uranium from Niger is true.
Joe gets back after a thorough investigation and is very sure that no deal has taken place between Niger and Iraq. But this is just before the American Invasion of Iraq and Joe’s conclusions are completely ignored.
A little prior to this incident, Valerie and her colleagues are gradually gathering more and more information and evidence that Iraq is not producing weapons of mass destruction, but their conclusions are rejected by officials from the vice president’s office.
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