Former CIA spy Valerie Plame set for Senate run as Democrat
by Emily Larsen
| March 29, 2019 01:06 PM
Valerie Plame, the former CIA officer who shot to fame when she was outed during George W. Bush’s presidency, is poised to run for U.S. Senate in New Mexico.
The ex-spy told the Washington Examiner Friday that she would run as a Democrat and would "like another opportunity to serve my country."
An early problem for Plame, 55, will be a 2017 anti-Semitism scandal. The subject will be tricky to navigate after the recent controversy involving anti-Semitic comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar, which led to Speak Nancy Pelosi warning of "bigoted or dangerous ideologies masquerading as policy."
Plame was forced to apologize after sharing on Twitter an anti-Semitic article from UNZ.com entitled "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars." The article stated that Jews "own the media," that they should wear labels while on national television, and that their beliefs were as dangerous as "a bottle of rat poison."
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