Valerie Plame Wilson is the former CIA covert operations officer who, in 2003, found herself at the heart of a political firestorm when senior White House and State Department officials revealed her secret status to several national journalists including one who published her name. Wilson shared her thoughts during the Poitras-Gleim lecture on her views of unprecedented abuse of public trust by the Bush administration in its efforts to silence a critic and subvert the rights of citizens to exercise free speech as part of the 45th annual Public Affairs Symposium.

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