The Eternal Plame

Just when you thought the phony scandal was over, and Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV had gone off into the sunset, Wilson's wife Valerie Plame Wilson is readying her memoirs for publication next Tuesday. AP's Matt Apuzzo reports:

Plame writes about the leak, the scandal and the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby in her memoir, 'Fair Game - My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House.' A copy of the book, which is to be released Tuesday, was purchased by The Associated Press.

She offers harsh words for President Bush, whom she assails for administration 'arrogance and intolerance.' She also said criticism of her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, was a 'dress rehearsal' for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth effort that impugned Sen. John Kerry's war record during his unsuccessful quest for the presidency in 2004.

Plame often writes from the perspective of spectator to a scandal. She discusses being uncomfortable in the limelight, even as she poses for magazine photographs, attends posh Washington fundraisers and is whisked backstage at a rock concert.

There's a question here, however. In her book, will Plame clarify the discrepancies between what she told the House Government Reform Committee earlier this year and the bipartisan findings of the 2004 Senate Intelligence Committee report on pre-war intelligence? Something tells me the answer is ... No.

Incidentally: The most comprehensive piece I've read on the whole Plame affair is this Brian M. Carney essay in Commentary.