E-mail a friendNovember 5, 2007
With Election Day one year away, USA Today's Susan Page assesses the political climate. Former CIA operative and Fair Game author Valerie Plame Wilson hopes Americans will pursue information from a variety of sources.
Susan Page
Susan Page
Veteran political journalist Susan Page is USA Today's Washington bureau chief. She also guest-hosts NPR's The Diane Rehm Show. Page has covered six presidential elections and four White House administrations and won national awards for her reporting. A native of Wichita, KS, she was a Pulitzer Fellow at Columbia University, where she earned her masters degree. She previously covered the White House and national politics for Newsday and is past president of the White House Correspondents' Association.
Valerie Plame Wilson
Valerie Plame Wilson
Former CIA operative explains why disclosing her identity was a breach of national security. (1:13)
For more than 20 years, Valerie Plame Wilson worked as a covert CIA operative. The public disclosure of her "other life"—in what was thought to be retaliation for criticism of the Bush administration by her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson—led to a grand jury investigation. She retired from the agency in '06 and, for the first time, shares her feelings about what happened in her memoir, Fair Game. The daughter of an Air Force colonel, Wilson holds two masters degrees and speaks four languages.