Inside Valerie Plame's Quixotic Mission to Buy Twitter-and Shut Down Trump
Can the ex-spy take away the president’s megaphone before he tweets the world into Armageddon? Nearly 15 years after former C.I.A....
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Associated Press in Washington
- Aug 24, 2017
Buy Twitter, ban Trump: former CIA agent tries to crowdfund $1bn purchase
Valerie Plame Wilson says Trump’s tweets ‘damage the country and put people in harm’s way’ but a majority stake in company would cost...
Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue
- Aug 24, 2017
Ex-CIA Agent Wants to Buy Twitter to Kick Trump Off
A former CIA agent wants President Donald Trump to stop tweeting — so much that she's trying to buy Twitter in order to kick him out....
Katie Roof, Tech Crunch
- Aug 23, 2017
Former CIA agent hopes to buy Twitter to kick Trump off
Remember Valerie Plame Wilson? The former CIA agent, who got involved in what became known as the “Plame Affair,” has a solution for...
Lauren Holter, Refinery29
- Aug 23, 2017
A Former CIA Officer Wants To Buy Twitter Just To Delete Trump's Account
The president's Twitter habits have become a concern for many, but one woman is on a mission to stop his spontaneous posts altogether....
Katie Couric and Sarah B Boxer
- May 12, 2017
Valerie Plame on how the intelligence community really feels about Trump
“It’s really, really bad when you have your intelligence apparatus and president at odds. And there’s a lot of distance between them.”...
Courtney Linder, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Apr 22, 2017
Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame talks nuclear, cyber threats at CMU
“It’s two and a half minutes to midnight,” said Valerie Plame, a former covert operative for the Central Intelligence Agency. “The clock...
Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle
- Feb 20, 2017
Ex-spy Plame’s big worries: ‘reckless’ president, nuclear weapons
When the most famous ex-CIA spy alive is concerned about the world blowing up, there’s probably something worrisome in that. Sure, this...
Abigail Jones, Newsweek
- Sep 21, 2016
Women of the CIA: The Hidden History of American Spycraft
“My first son was my 1993 World Trade Center bombing baby,” says Gina Bennett, a veteran CIA analyst who has spent her career tracking...
Valerie Plame via HUFFPOST
- Sep 20, 2016
What’s It Like To Try And Be Normal After A Career As A Spy
I love this little story by David Foster Wallace because it so perfectly captures my feelings and experiences after being outed as a CIA...
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