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Valerie Plame Wilson Lecture ||| The Destruction of Privacy in America ||| ID Theft Information
A Night With Valerie Plame Wilson
A lecture from the former CIA agent whose identity was leaked by the Bush administration.
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 - 7:00 P M | Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Free Tickets Available to Students: January 28th, to the general public: February 4th, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM.
For more information, call: 717-245-1671 or email pas@dickinson.edu
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. A subsequent investigation exposed what some dub an act of treason: that the "outing" was coordinated with the involvement of President Bush's Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove; Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and the Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage. Libby was indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to federal investigators and in March 2007 was found guilty on four of the five counts against him. Plame's husband, retired Ambassador Joseph Wilson, publicly challenged the Bush administration on its use of purported intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. Wilson will share her thoughts in the Poitras-Gleim lecture on what she views as unprecedented abuse of public trust by the Bush administration in its efforts to silence a critic and subvert the right of citizens to exercise free speech in line with the 45th Public Affairs Symposium's topic, "Is Privacy Dead?" Free tickets will be available to students beginning Jan. 28 and to the general public beginning Feb. 4, Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. A question and answer session, book signing and dessert reception will follow. The Poitras-Gleim lecture is endowed by a gift from Ted and Kay Gleim Poitras and held annually in conjunction with the symposium. The lecture provides a forum to explore and promote cross-disciplinary thought and communication.
