http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083924,00.htmlDid Bush's top aide commit a crime talking to reporters about a spy? Here's what the case is really about--and why it grows more fascinating
By DAVID BJERKLIE, NANCY GIBBS
Posted Sunday, Jul. 17, 2005
Valerie Plame had no reason to welcome a reporter into her home last week. Reporters tell stories and trade secrets, and her life, once a state secret, had become one of the most widely told stories in years. As if anyone could resist it: beautiful blond mother of two whose identity as a CIA spy is compromised by a political vendetta against her husband.
She opens the door of her brick house on the leafy Washington side street, a few turns from the German embassy. A Jaguar convertible sits in the driveway, the toys and bikes in the garage. There are children...
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