New Sean Penn Film ‘Fair Game’ Pushes Blatant Falsehoods About Valerie Plame, Iraq
The director of the new film “Fair Game” – released Friday – is either blatantly dishonest, or astoundingly lazy. The movie, starring Sean Penn as former U.S. diplomat Joe Wilson and Naomi Watts as his embattled wife, CIA agent Valerie Plame, makes a number of claims on controversial issues that are demonstrably false. The Daily Caller's Jamie Weinstein did the legwork in demonstrating just how far from the truth some of the film's central claims are. Chief among them, perhaps unsurprisingly, is that Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and other White House officials exerted political pressure on intelligence officials to cherrypick intelligence favorable to claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. read more
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New Sean Penn Film ‘Fair Game’ Pushes Blatant Falsehoods About Valerie Plame, Iraq
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