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Valerie Plame on CIA and Book Tours

By Anastasia ⋅ October 25, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

1. I write in my book about my paramilitary training at the Farm which included jumping out airplanes, firing a variety of automatic weapons, learning how to run or avoid road blocks, undergoing harsh interrogation sessions, and practicing escape and evasion techniques from an ostensibly hostile force in the woods for days at a time. All of these abilities, taught to my classmates and me by tough former military types, require endurance, the kind that makes you dig down deep and find strength and desire to push on despite overwhelming exhaustion, irritation at what you’re being asked to do, and feeling like you’re constantly trying to catch up. This, happily, coincides well with what is required on a book tour.

The entire post is well worth reading. Plame’s book–with sentences and pages censored by CIA blacked out–is out now. And despite the fact I rarely read the DC memoir genre (why bother? everything juicy will come out in the Sunday talk shows), the reviews for this one have me intrigued.