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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-24-07 09:49 AM
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Anyone get the Valery Plame book yet?
I got it last night at Target. There were only 3 copies left.

When I opened it, I was shocked to see all the CIA redactions were left in the book. There is blacked out stuff all over the place. I have never seen anything like this!

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Audio_Al Donating Member (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-26-07 12:50 PM
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1. Chris Matthews did a good job interviewing her yesterday.
One of the interviews we saw showed the blacked out redactions in the book itself.

I think that one is coming as an audiobook to the radio station but not sure. Maybe it's another book.

Thanks for your post.
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:53 PM
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2. I just got my signed copy today!
A friend got it for me from the book signing at Borders in Washington, D.C. on the 25th.

A magnificent keepsake! OMG it is precious!

I'm going to bag it up and store it away and get another, unsigned copy to read.

Crazy huh???:shrug:
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rachel23 Donating Member (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 12:30 AM
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3. I want to get it
She's so brave, I admire her courage.
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Jim__ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-30-07 07:31 AM
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4. How do the redactions effect the content of the book?
I knew the CIA had redacted a lot of stuff in her book. But, I expected that she would use something to replace that. Is the book actually missing a lot of content that was intended to be there?
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-02-07 11:44 AM
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7. Not much of a problem
In one of her tv interviews she said that at the back of the book another person researched and deduced what is in the redactions. They wrote an epilogue detailing the facts they found. Right away I was able to know what was redacted - it's the name of a country. I don't want to post any spoilers, so that's all I'll say. But if the portion of the epilogue I read is typical, then you shouldn't have a problem figuring out what's missing. And the redactions don't really break up the flow of the read. It's going smoothly for me.
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-01-07 09:58 AM
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5. Blitzer interviewed her & he didn't even mention the redacted parts.
:eyes:

He probably doesn't know what the word redacted means. He's so in over his head -- what an embarrassment -- well, not to our media, but to real journalists everywhere.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-02-07 10:11 AM
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6. Obviously, dumbass didn't read the book.
I picked "Fair Game" up at the Library yesterday. I'm reading it...but it IS tough going because of the redacted parts. Hell, entire pages are blacked out.
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