This question and answer session with Valerie Plame at the Washington Post is really worth a read.

Plame Wilson was online Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 1 p.m. ET to discuss her book, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, which details her CIA training, covert status, experiences, responsibilities, the outing and her life now. Portions of “Fair Game” are blacked-out and indicate, say the publishers, places where the CIA has demanded redactions. The extensive afterword by reporter Laura Rozen, drawn from interviews and the public record, is included to provide context to Plame Wilson’s story.

Here are some tidbits, but go read it.

If none of this had happened, I would be overseas right now, with my family, working on counterproliferation issues of great concern and interest to me.

Mr. Armitage has been in Washington for decades. In fact, he served at the CIA for some time. He should have known better than to “gossip” about me to journalists. However, his involvement, no matter how it might be characterized, does not preclude the fact that there was a simultaneous conspiracy “by many in the White House” in the words of Spec. Prosecutor Fitzgerald to undermine and discredit Joe Wilson.

As far as Armitage – don’t forget that Mr. Libby was convicted on obstruction of justice – meaning that the Prosecutor could not really get to the bottom of what happened.

I did not suggest nor recommend Joe Wilson, my husband, for the trip to Niger. A reports officer who knew of Joe’s bona fides (including several previous trips on behalf of the CIA) suggested Joe. When we went to our boss to tell him about the interest in the alleged sale of yellowcake from Niger to Iraq, he asked me to ask Joe when I went home that night to come into CIA Headquarters the next week to discuss what we should do. That was the extent of my involvement in Joe’s trip.

The CIA did a damage report after I was outed. That is standard procedure. I have not seen it, nor any members of Congress. However, I can say that the damage was serious.

I have never met Judith Miller. I think it’s fair to say that the vast majority of her reporting on the WMDs in Iraq in the run-up to the war has all been discredited. She relied heavily upon Iraqi exile Chalibi, who the CIA early and often knew was not a credible source, to say the least.

(About Dick Cheney) I think he has a very dangerous view of Executive Power and is simply wrong about how our Constitution should be interpreted.

While we expected the administration to go after Joe for his criticism of their case for war, we certainly did not expect them to commit treason by betraying my covert identity.