Former CIA Officer Valerie Plame

Work in Progress with Sophia Bush

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4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Valerie Plame is a former career covert CIA operations officer who is now running for Congress to represent northern New Mexico. She was exposed to the public in 2003 when a conservative columnist leaked her true identity. She joins Sophia on “Work in Progress” to share her story, what her time was like in the CIA, how we can do a better job of integrating veterans back into society, why she’s running, and so much more. Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Sim Sarna Supervising Producer: Allison Bresnick Associate Producer: Caitlin Lee Editor: Josh Windisch Assistant Editor: Matt Sasaki Music written by Jack Garratt and produced by Mark Foster Artwork by Kimi Selfridge. This show is brought to you by Brilliant Anatomy.

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1:43.1	Hi, everyone. Sophia Bush here. Welcome to work in progress where I talk to people who inspire me
1:50.3	about how they got to where they are and where they think they're still going.
2:00.4	Oh, my progressers today is an exciting day. Valerie Plame is here. Valerie is a former career
2:13.3	covert CIA operations officer, Casual, who's now running for Congress in New Mexico. She's a badass.
2:22.0	Valerie's name became public in 2003 when her then husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson,
2:27.6	wrote an article challenging the Iraq war narrative and calling out the lies that our government
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