Ketika berbicara secara terbuka untuk pertama kali, Valerie Plame Wilson mengatakan kepada satu komite Kongres bahwa ia merasa dikhianati ketika namanya muncul di satu kolom surat kabar pada Juli 2003, tak lama setelah suaminya tampil sebagai seorang pengeritik perang Irak.
Speaking publicly for the first time, Valerie Plame Wilson told a congressional committee that she felt betrayed when her name appeared in a newspaper column in July 2003, shortly after her husband emerged as an Iraq war critic.