This is based on a true story, in the time right after President George Bush sent troops into an ill-advised raid of Iraq. The reason given was "weapons of mass destruction" and as we eventually found out, there were no weapons of mass destruction. Whether President Bush was just too ill-qualified to make a good decision, or he was simply being deceitful, we will never know. But this movie dramatizes the story of one man who tried to get the truth out and as a "shot across the bow" his wife, Valerie Plame, is exposed as a secret CIA agent to the press. This changes their lives and eventually results in prison terms for some of Bush's advisers.
Naomi Watts is really good as CIA agent, Valerie Plame, and wife of Joe Wilson, played well by Sean Penn. The first part of the movie addresses the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, where intelligence was trying to make a case for an invasion. It focused on a supposed large purchase of Uranium from a small African country, Niger, plus a purchase of Aluminum tubes, supposedly to be used for nuclear fuel rods.
Agents effectively showed that both reports were false, no evidence of a Uranium transaction, and the tubes were not the right size and composition for nuclear fuel use. When the invasion went ahead anyway, Joe Wilson began to speak up. In return, a White House leak identified Wilson's wife as the secret CIA agent, but a federal crime to do so.
Scooter Libby and Karl Rove are implicated, Libby served some prison time, but President Bush commuted his sentence.
A good movie, but also an important message about government and freedom belonging to all the population, not to a few elected to serve in Washington.
George Bush raided Iraq, but failed to get Osama Bin Laden. Today we get the news that President Obama has now gotten rid of Bin Laden.
Naomi Watts is really good as CIA agent, Valerie Plame, and wife of Joe Wilson, played well by Sean Penn. The first part of the movie addresses the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq, where intelligence was trying to make a case for an invasion. It focused on a supposed large purchase of Uranium from a small African country, Niger, plus a purchase of Aluminum tubes, supposedly to be used for nuclear fuel rods.
Agents effectively showed that both reports were false, no evidence of a Uranium transaction, and the tubes were not the right size and composition for nuclear fuel use. When the invasion went ahead anyway, Joe Wilson began to speak up. In return, a White House leak identified Wilson's wife as the secret CIA agent, but a federal crime to do so.
Scooter Libby and Karl Rove are implicated, Libby served some prison time, but President Bush commuted his sentence.
A good movie, but also an important message about government and freedom belonging to all the population, not to a few elected to serve in Washington.
George Bush raided Iraq, but failed to get Osama Bin Laden. Today we get the news that President Obama has now gotten rid of Bin Laden.