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(MUEZZIN RECITING PRAYERS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Jessica McDowell,
Gnosos Chemicals.

WOMAN: When do you leave Kuala Lumpur,
Miss McDowell?

I fly to Taiwan Tuesday,
then back to Dusseldorf.

Mr. Tabir is very
busy this morning.

I can imagine.

(IN EAST INDIAN ACCENT)
Seeing as we are waiting

why don't you practice
your little pitch on me?

Actually, if it's all the same,
I'll just be...

I know all of my
uncle's business.

He trusts me.

Begin.

Well, I'm sure you're aware
that recently your subsidiary

developed an organic,
ester-based lubricant

derived from kernel
oil that makes...

You are American?

Canadian,
actually. I'm from Toronto.

A Maple Leaf fan?

No, not really.

You must be the only person
from Toronto who's not a hockey fan.

Oh, I'm a fan. Dad's from
Vancouver so I'm a Canuck.

Between us,
the Maple Leafs suck.

They should never
have signed Mark Bell.

Guy's a liability on and off the ice. So,
who's your team?

I don't like hockey.

Unfortunately,
Mr. Tabir has no window this morning.

He extends an invitation to a
private reception at his residence.

Well,
if that's okay. I don't want to intrude.

Come to the party.

(MIDDLE-EAST RAP MUSIC BLARING)

Why are we stopping?

(TURNS OFF ENGINE)

Miss McDowell,

my uncle believes trust
is something you earn.

He doesn't trust people until
he knows them very, very well.

But he trusts you, Hafiz.

How do you know my name?

Your car was swept an hour ago.

Do not get out. If you get out of this car,
I can't protect you.

Who are you? Let go of my arm.

Who are you? Now!

Your uncle's in business
with Abu Domar Khan.

Khan has made contact
with a terror organization

via an aid agency in Pakistan.

They're seeking materials
to build a weapon.

That's bullshit.

We need information
about your uncle.

Contacts. Shipments.

If you help us, we help you.

If you don't, your brother dies.

And tomorrow you're sitting next
to your uncle in a cell in Thailand

and it won't be me
asking the questions.

No. No, you can't help him.

We can help him, Hafiz.

Listen to me,
because I promise you one thing.

Right now you have no idea
what we can and cannot do.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

You'll get a call at 8:00 a.m.

You'll be asked if
you need a cleaner.

You want her to come three
mornings per week, do you understand?

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

I said, do you understand?

Tonight I want to
take a few minutes

to discuss a great
threat to peace,

and America's determination to lead
the world in confronting that threat.

The decision has been made to
increase the threat condition designation

currently classified
at Elevated Risk

to increase that threat condition
designation to the High Risk category.

MALE NEWSCASTER: 9/11 and its
aftermath awakened this nation to danger.

To the true ambitions of
the global terror network.

The state police are
investigating an Anthrax scare.

Threatening letters
with a white substance.

The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission

has placed the nation's nuclear
plants on their highest level of security.

A terrorist attack
is now highly likely.

BRITISH NEWSCASTER: What
do we know after September 11th?

We know these terrorist networks
will use any means they can

to cause maximum
death and destruction.

And we will take whatever
action is necessary

to defend our freedom
and our security.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING ON RADIO)

TOM BROKAW ON TV: America
strikes back. Afghanistan is pounded

with bombs and missiles
from the air and from sea.

American-led military attacks

against targets throughout
Afghanistan continue tonight.

He couldn't slow down for,
like, 400 yards.

FRED: And yet,
I'm incredible in bed.

(LAUGHING)

MALE NEWSCASTER
ON TV: They are targeting

both Osama bin Laden's training
camps and Taliban military.

DIANA: Listen, Steven and I are not
gonna go on the same plane together.

We're not even going
to take a train together.

STEVE: We took the
train to your mom's.

It only takes one to fly
into a nuclear power plant.

One. JEFF: A sarin
attack on Disneyworld.

Yeah, but whatever they're telling us,
we're totally vulnerable.

I mean, who is protecting us?

LISA: Would you risk taking
your kids to Disneyworld right now?

Would you do that?

Absolutely not.

I'd be terrified of
exposing my children

to what adds up
to a clearinghouse

for crap merchandise
and disappointing rides.

Joe thinks Disneyworld
is Vegas for kids.

So, Valerie, what do you do?

I work in venture capital. Brewster
Jennings, here in Georgetown.

STEVE: Oh,
cool. Like Net start-ups?

Exactly. Retail
consumer. Mmm-hmm.

We create pooled
investment vehicles.

It's actually pretty boring.

You get on a plane.

Two guys in turbans,
seats 1A, 1B.

And they look nervous and they're sweating,
they're sweaty

and they're saying
prayers. What do you do?

Steve, you have a kid,
right? You're off that plane.

You're calling the cops. If we're honest,
we all are.

Joe? You know you are.

Come on,
you see these two guys on a plane. Turbans.

Sweating. Prayers.
The whole thing.

What do you say?
What's the call?

Well, Jeff. (SIGHS)

He started it.

Yeah,
every time. Every time we go out.

He asked me a question. I gave
a full and considered response.

He was drunk,
Joe. Everybody's had a hard day.

They're just trying
to let off steam.

By invoking quasi-racist
conundra? He's a parent.

Is he teaching his four-year-old
to fear all men in turbans?

It's Diana's birthday.
Jeff's her oldest friend.

So?

So you can't call
him a racist pussy.

(LAUGHS)

It's not funny, Joe.

It's not funny. It's a
very serious subject.

And if by not keeping quiet while
someone spouts obnoxious crap

makes you an asshole,
then I'm an asshole.

You knew that when
you married me.

How was your trip?

(GASPS)

VALERIE: No! Oh, God.

(GROANING)

(MOANING STOPS)

SAMANTHA: Hey, you cheated.

TREVOR: No,
I didn't! It's a tie.

Valerie, where's Kim?

(CHILDREN ARGUING)

VALERIE: She can't get here
until after lunch. Didn't I tell you?

Okay. I guess I'll be
working at home this morning.

Is that okay?

JOE: Yeah. Me and
Spongebob got it.

Break it up. Trevor,
don't hit your sister.

Listen, the Mitchells want
to have dinner on Tuesday.

But if you want to skip it...

I promise I'll behave.

I promise to behave.

VALERIE: Mmm. JOE: See,
everyone's on their best behavior.

I love you.

I'll see you.

JOE: Bye.

SAMANTHA: Bye.

(TREVOR CHUCKLING)

JOE: Say, "Bye, Mommy." Bye.

TREVOR: Bye. Bye, Mom.

Do you guys want to
watch some television?

Yeah. Yeah.

MALE CPD AGENT: Counter-proliferation
tracks and thwarts nuclear

and WMD acquisitions by rogue
nations and non-state actors.

We're the fastest-growing
division within the Agency.

Which sounds cool,
but you may have to share a desk.

Hafiz hired a cleaner.

Gotta go. Kuala
Lumpur just went live.

What time did he call this in?

1100 hours Zulu time.

Keep the transaction live. Trace
it all the way to the end user.

The shipment arrives
in Joburg on the 21st.

It's put in an
unmarked container

and shipped to the Jebel
free-trade zone in Dubai.

Here. Dr. Jonas and
his team at Los Alamos

have altered the impedance timings of the
spark gaps by a fraction of a nanosecond.

Val, Chief wants to see you.

Shut it down.

Why? We have everything.
We're ready to go.

We have actual
intel on the buyer.

Sargin Vaziri,
Syrian national based out of Karachi.

On a wire picked up in Cairo he
talks about nuclear componentry

from a known source in Pakistan.

He's moving to an
unnamed Gulf state.

Could it be Iraq?

Vaziri's devoutly Shia.

Iraq's controlled by Sunnis. Saddam's
Sunni. There's no way this is Iraq.

Seventh Floor issued a directive
for a joint task force on Iraq.

I want you to
head up operations.

Congratulations, Valerie.

Thank you.

You can pick your own
team. This is top priority.

I need 24 hours to
brief my replacement.

From Monday,
I need your both eyes on Iraq.

Yes, sir.

This is coming from across
the river. Down the line, DFU.

(DOOR BUZZING OPEN)

DFU?

Don't fuck up.

Congratulations. (LAUGHS)

Thanks.

You can put it there.

Hey.

Don't you have a home to go to?

I thought this went away.

The DIA released
the report Tuesday.

WINPAC aren't buying
and State kicked it back,

but it's still making waves
in the Vice President's office.

You think Joe could do it?

Well, he's qualified. He's
been there hundreds of times.

He knows the arena inside out.

Great. Could you put his
credentials in a memo?

I want to kick it up the ladder.

You don't look overjoyed.

Joe's been working
hard to build his business.

Then there's the twins.
Money's kind of tight right now.

He's helped us before. Could
you just ask him to come in?

Hey, Joe?

Hey. Nice place
you got here. Cozy.

I need to get you cleared.

You work in the basement?

Actually,
I work in Georgetown at Brewster Jennings.

We're a small firm
of venture capitalists.

Well,
that must be interesting work.

It pays the rent.

(KNOCK ON DOOR) Come in.

Joe, this is Jack.

Hi,
Joe Wilson. Deputy Chief of CPD.

It's a pleasure, Ambassador.

Hi, Joe Wilson. Ambassador.

I'll leave you guys
to it. Joe Wilson.

MALE AGENT: Good morning,
Ambassador. JOE: How are you?

Joe Wilson. Hello.
Joe Wilson. Hi.

JACK: Have a seat. Can I
get you something to drink?

Coffee would be
great. Thank you.

JACK: How do you like it?

Just black, thanks.

Ambassador Wilson,
what do you know about yellowcake?

Yellowcake uranium? Mmm-hmm.

I believe it's a concentrate
made from uranium ore

that's used in the fissile
material for weapons programs.

But I'm not a scientist.

Thank you. What about Niger?

I usually pronounce it Niger
to avoid confusion with Nigeria.

The UN Human Development Index rates
it the least-livable country in the world.

I started my foreign
service there.

I visited many times as
Ambassador to Gabon.

And then again as Director of
Africa Policy for President Clinton

with the NSC.

I've often met with
Prime Minister Mayaki.

I know the former Foreign Minister,
I know the Minister of Mines.

I know the country very well.

The office of the Vice
President has received a report

concerning a memorandum of sale

between the governments
of Niger and Iraq

for the purchase of 500 tons
of yellowcake uranium ore.

I don't have to tell you how
serious this allegation is.

No, sir, you don't.

This is a request from
the Vice President's office.

Can you help us?

What do you have in mind?

(AIRHOSTESS SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

(AIRHOSTESS THANKING
PASSENGERS IN FRENCH)

(MEN CHATTERING
IN LOCAL LANGUAGE)

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

How can Niger help
its old friend America?

In the summer of 2001,
Iraq sought to purchase 60,000 high-alloy

7075 T6 aluminum tubes
manufactured in China.

The high spec of these
tubes led us to conclude

that they were intended for
the enrichment of uranium

and as such provide proof that
Saddam is building a nuclear bomb.

In August of 2001,
Jay Turner, that's me,

flew to Vienna to meet
with the IAEA scientists.

I produced this report,
aspects of which represent

the CIA's present position.
I'm happy to take questions.

The INR concluded late last year that
these tubes are probably for artillery use.

The DOE agreed they exactly matched
those used by Iraq for artillery rockets.

PAUL: Where are the tubes?

TURNER: WINPAC has them.

We've examined them.

And this is my point. None of
you guys have even seen the tubes.

I've seen them.

And when was that?

When I led the covert team
that intercepted them in Jordan,

brought back samples,
and delivered them to you guys at WINPAC.

And I take it you're
not a nuclear expert.

These tubes are a match

for those designed by German
scientist Gernot Zippe in the '50s.

VALERIE: You're right.
I'm no nuclear expert

but Dr. Houston Wood at the
University of Virginia Atomic Facility is.

He also knows Dr. Zippe and he told him
that the wall thickness of the Iraqi tubes

was 3 or 4 times the
thickness of his design.

Right,
and he also said that the length

of the tubes is twice
that of Zippe's design.

In fact, he said that the
only thing that was similar

between his tubes
and the aluminum tubes

was that they were
both made of aluminum.

A metal that hasn't been used
in gas centrifuges since 1952.

I went to Vienna. Okay? Canada.

And I've been working
on this for months.

There are centrifuges. Fact.

So, basically,
they're your tubes

and if we don't let you win,
you're taking them home.

(MEN LAUGH)

That's pathetic.

Joe,
no one's saying you're wrong here,

but if you're right, it's huge,
so, we ask the question.

Right? We have
to ask the question.

(LABORERS CHATTERING)

JOE: Niger has two uranium
mines in the Sahara desert.

One is flooded.

The other is run by COGEMA,
a French subsidiary

jointly controlled by the
Japanese and Germans.

Five hundred tons of yellowcake

is not an off-the-books
size transaction.

It represents a 40%
production increase

in the nation's annual
output of uranium.

A sale that size would
leave a huge paper trail.

Any documentation would, by law,

have to be signed
by the Prime Minister,

Foreign Minister,
and the Minister of Mines.

But say it was an
off-the-books deal.

How do you hide the
transportation of 500 tons of anything,

let alone
lightly-refined uranium?

You're talking 50 semi-tractor
trucks on one road through villages

where nothing passed for months
except maybe one bush taxi.

It would be the biggest
event for months.

To say they forgot is like
kids forgetting Christmas.

You have the droughts
of the '70s and '80s

which brought millions of dollars
in US aid which continues today.

It doesn't make any sense that the
Nigerians would compromise that lifeline.

For that reason and for all the
reasons that I've been telling you,

it is my opinion that this
sale could not have happened.

JOE: So, what happens next?

Well, they write a report,
give it to the analysts.

It will be rewritten,
then kicked upstairs

and combined with
other reports they get.

What?

I just think it's ludicrous

that they're gonna send
somebody all the way over there

and spend all that money
for the same conclusion.

You can't compile intelligence
from a single source.

That's not intelligence.
That's an opinion.

Trust me. It's a fact.

Says who? Says me.

You're just a teeny-weeny
tiny cog in a giant machine.

You did your job.
You should feel good.

They count on that. That's
why they don't pay you.

I'm not feeling very 007-ish.

(VALERIE CHUCKLES)

Maybe I can get the kids
to make a medal for you.

Us 00s prefer gratuitous sex.

(CHUCKLES)

Mmm.

Maybe I can do
something about that.

Mmm.

Mmm?

Mmm-hmm.

Angola's holding
another round of bidding

on their deep-water offshore
blocks at the end of the year.

Chevron, Elf,
and Exxon are interested.

(CHILDREN CHATTERING)

(INDISTINCT
CHATTERING IN ARABIC)

(PROFESSOR LECTURING IN ARABIC)

She did it! No, I didn't!

Okay. Everybody okay?

Four arms,
four legs. No broken bones.

KIM: Hey, kids. Mr. Wilson,
I'm so sorry I'm late.

That's fine. Look,
guys, Kim's here.

SAMANTHA: When's
Mommy coming home?

PROFESSOR BADAWI: It's an
honor to meet you at last, Dr. Harper.

I was unable to attend your
string gravity seminar at MIT

but I read a transcript.

Did you read my
latest paper on quarks?

Dr. Harper,
I cite your 1995 essay more than once.

Dr. Harper's in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

She received a call yesterday
requesting she stay home for 48 hours.

I don't understand.

Who are you?

I'm sorry for misleading you but I'm
here to ask you the same question,

because you're not
Professor Badawi.

Your name is
Dr. Harif Al Fallari.

You were born in Basra.

You were lead engineer
at the Osirak nuclear facility

until you fled Iraq and arrived here,
in Cairo.

I need names of your colleagues
in the weapons programs.

The lives of hundreds of thousands
of your people may depend upon it.

(CHUCKLING) This is absurd.

You were never tortured? Broken?

You didn't finally escape and
arrive here in Cairo with nothing?

No. My name is
Bakkar Abdel Badawi.

I've never been to
Basra. I'm a teacher.

Dr. Fallari had two daughters.

They were taken by Uday
Hussein's private guard.

They were never seen again.

I need names of your colleagues
in the weapons programs.

VALERIE: Why is the OVP here?

What?

(KNOCKING) Yeah?

The Vice President's
men are here.

What?

My name is Scooter Libby. I am the
Chief of Staff to the Vice President.

You are?

Dave. I'm an analyst
in Non-Proliferation.

What can you tell the Vice
President about aluminum tubes?

I didn't realize that was what we
were gonna be talking about here.

Relax,
will you? The Veep's just dotting the I's.

Come on, Jim.

The only time the Vice President
comes to Langley is to cut a ribbon.

Cheney doesn't trust us.

This shit with Dick goes
back 30 years. It will blow over.

Hey, Val, where are we on Iraq?

We need to find sources
that we can rely on.

We need to get in close.

Jim, Val thinks she can get
us inside the weapons program.

How?

In three weeks you have to come back again,
okay?

Thank you for everything.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Sorry, there's nothing I can do.

God bless.

Come on.

I said, come on!

VALERIE: Dr. Hassan,
is there somewhere we could talk?

How long is it since
you saw your brother?

1992.

Before that, in '83,
he came here for an engineering conference.

Twice in 25 years. We try
to stay in contact. It's difficult.

Would you like to
go back and see him?

You want me to become a spy?

We need to ask
Hammad some questions.

Do you think he'd answer...

I am a doctor. I work hard.

I'm also a mother. I have a
small daughter and I'm all she has.

We could help your brother. Right
now he's extremely valuable to us.

And to Saddam. The Mukhabarat
watch him night and day.

He could come here.

He's an expert
physicist. He'd have a job.

His children,
his family would be safe.

You, your daughter could
see him whenever you want.

Can you help us?

I will not do anything to
help you. I don't know you.

If you care about Iraq,
about your country...

My country is America now.

Trust me,
if there was another way...

I don't trust you.

I don't trust you at all.

We're going to war. And your brother's
gonna be right in the middle of it.

If the Iraqi regime wishes peace

it will immediately and
unconditionally forswear,

disclose and remove or destroy
all weapons of mass destruction.

Come in. They're back.

PRESIDENT BUSH: If
Iraq's regime defies us again,

the world must move deliberately

and decisively to
hold Iraq to account.

Don't make jokes.

(RETCHING)

(MAN GROANING)

He thinks I don't
understand how serious it is?

Weeks and weeks of 15-hour days.

We've been back
over this and over this.

All right,
that's it. I'm going to handle this.

PAUL: We've been over this
data with you five, six times now.

And we don't know how
you want us to play this.

Let me level with you here,
Paul.

I don't know what
these tubes are for.

There could be something to this,
from everything you're saying

but very likely not,
right? Exactly.

Let me ask a question.

When you say,
"We don't really know how to play this,"

what do you mean?

I mean to say that I don't know
how to say it any other way...

You didn't say "I,"
you said "we."

So, you and the others had
discussed how to play these briefings.

Why does the CIA feel the
need to play these briefings?

No, what I mean is,
I didn't mean what I just said.

Which part? The last part? Or other things,
too?

I'm sorry. I'm getting
a little confused.

Do you want me to come back? No. God,
no.

You don't know why I'm here,
do you?

No.

In 1991,
the United States invaded Iraq,

and afterwards
weapons inspectors

discovered Saddam was six
months off enriching uranium

to sufficiently high specifications
to make a nuclear bomb.

He had fissile material.

Not a single person in the
CIA had the slightest clue

that such a program
even existed.

So, now,
one decade on are you telling me

that you're 100% sure these tubes are
not intended to create nuclear weapons?

One point about intelligence,
nothing is 100%.

So, what, are you 99% sure? 98%?

I'm saying that you can't
put an exact figure on it.

I'm saying that...

But if you had to say?

You cannot be that precise.

Could you say you're 97% sure?

Is there a 3% chance
you've got this wrong?

Or four or five?

Still pretty good odds. Do
you like those odds, Paul?

Are you willing to put your name
to that? Ready to make that call?

I don't make that call, sir.

Yes, you do, Paul.

Each time you
interpret a piece of data.

Each time you choose
a maybe over a perhaps

you make a call, a decision.

Right now you're making a lot of little
decisions adding up to a big decision.

But what if there's only a
1% chance that you're wrong?

Can you say for sure
that you'll take that chance

and state as a fact

that this equipment is not intended
for a nuclear weapons program?

Do you know what 1% of the
population of this country is?

It's 3,240,000 souls.

Okay, sir. Look,
we're not machines.

We look at the
evidence. We game it out.

And believe it or not,
not everybody agrees all the time.

It's a process. It's a process.

Yes. And not everyone agrees.

Exactly.

Who doesn't agree?

(BUGLE PLAYING)

(INAUDIBLE)

What the hell is Joe Turner
doing next to the DCI?

Didn't you hear? On Friday,
the DCI took him to the White House.

He briefed the President
on aluminum tubes.

You've got to be kidding me.

That guy's a tool.

OFFICER: Ready! Aim! Fire!

BILL: It's a dead end. So,
you got a list of Iraqi scientists.

How do you suggest
we get to them?

The Mukhabarat watch
the scientists night and day.

Their houses are bugged,
their friends are followed.

TACTICAL COMMANDER: Send in
a team of NOCs by taxi from the north.

Say you get through the
checkpoints and roadblocks.

If you showed up in my
bedroom in the dead of night

asking me to help out Uncle Sam,

I'm going to react
unpredictably.

Given the theater,
it's all too high-risk.

Even if we get to them,
they won't come out alone.

They'll want to bring their family,
their children, their kids.

We'll get down south to Basra,
we'll ask for Jordan's help.

Give me two months.
I'll give you two or three.

No,
I have 29 names. I need to get to them all.

The wall's too high,
Val. What do you want to do, train a mouse?

Maybe.

(WHISPERING)
Hey. Did I wake you?

(SIGHS)

It's 3:45 in the morning.

I got to be at the
airport in 45 minutes.

How long this time? Do we
need childcare tomorrow?

I left it on a Post-it.

Of course. It's on the Post-it.

Look, I didn't want to wake you.

All we've been doing is leaving
Post-its for each other for months.

The fridge is like
a dead letter drop.

Shit.

I sound like some
old... (GRUNTS) God.

(SIGHING)

I don't know where you go.

I don't know who you meet. I don't
know if you're in jail somewhere

or in a ditch somewhere in Jordan,
Beirut.

If you went missing, I couldn't tell
anybody because you were never there.

(SIGHS)

I don't know where you go.

I'm going to Cleveland.

It's on the Post-it.

Have a good day.

(THANKING IN ARABIC)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

MALE AGENT: You have
two of these in your luggage.

This is the only pen
we want you to use.

The ink on this pen is
visible for 10 seconds.

Only when given the correct
chemical fixative can it be read.

If the Mukhabarat
see any of this they will

do things to me that
you cannot imagine.

Tell me what you need
to know. I will memorize it.

We have 50 very specific questions,
some extremely technical.

You have 206 bones in your body.

Do you want their names in English,
Latin or Arabic?

How do you feel?

(CHUCKLES)

If anyone stops you,
anyone asks you anything,

stay calm. You're just
visiting your brother.

Keep it simple.

How do you do it?

Lie to someone to their face?

Huh?

You have to know
why you're lying

and never forget the truth.

ALI: It's time.

Are you ready? (SIGHS)

(FEMALE ANNOUNCER
CHATTERING IN ARABIC OVER PA)

Welcome to Queen
Alia International Airport.

(SECURITY CHATTERING IN ARABIC)

The Mukhabarat is watching
the flight desk on this side.

MALE NEWS REPORTER ON TV:
Based on what you know right now,

how close is Saddam
Hussein's government...

How close is that government to
developing a nuclear capability?

(INCREASING VOLUME)

You'll get different estimates
about precisely how close he is.

We do know that there
have been shipments

going into Iraq, for instance,
of aluminum tubes

that really are only suited
for nuclear weapons programs,

centrifuge programs.

There will always
be some uncertainty

about how quickly he can
acquire nuclear weapons.

But we don't want the smoking
gun to be a mushroom cloud.

JACK OVER PHONE:
It's a coordinated leak.

Someone in the OVP leaked
a story to The New York Times.

Now they're all across the
networks quoting the leak.

"Smoking gun?" "Mushroom
Cloud?" They're using the same words.

It's a coordinated leak.

VALERIE: I'm coming home.

We have been able to
intercept and prevent him

from acquiring through
this particular channel

the kinds of tubes that are
necessary to build a centrifuge.

JOE: I always close the door,
I always roll up the window.

VALERIE: Yeah,
but you can smell it.

What would you have me do,
roll up a towel

and hide in the room
like a teenager smoking?

Or sandbag my study?

Just go out on the deck.

It's minus 10 degrees outside.

Steve, help me.

You're missing the whole point.

A cigar,
you want the Winston Churchill vibe,

the slippers,
the crackling fire.

Or musty books,
like a faithful dog.

JOE: You don't want to be outside in
a goose down freezing your balls off

alone in the dark.

So, don't think Churchill.
Think Scott of the Antarctic.

(WOMEN WHOOPING)

I quit.

Can I ask a dumb question?
What is an aluminum tube?

(JEFF CHATTERING)

It's a centrifuge. It
enriches uranium.

FRED: How?

(ALL CHATTERING)
JEFF: Nobody knows.

They do know what
they're for. Come on.

Have you read about this,
Valerie?

Oh,
I was away last week on business.

Basically, Saddam bought
these tubes and we nailed him.

We have them and they're
packed with uranium.

FRED: They're
packed with uranium?

JEFF: They're
packed with uranium!

LISA: My expert husband.

Okay, right. So, they're for purifying,
but the bomb comes later.

Basically, you boil it up and
you make the big one. Right?

No, says who? It's a bunch of tubes,
Jeff.

JEFF: Everything you read!
The New York Times. You're right.

Joe, you know about this
stuff. What's your hunch on this?

I don't know anything
about tubes. I'm not qualified.

I think...

It's a pretext! 50% of Americans

think Saddam blew up the towers.

LISA: Yeah,
but you can't say he's not a threat!

JEFF: I agree! FRED:
Saddam's not a threat!

JEFF: Nobody's saying that.

If we got rid of
Hitler in the '30s...

He's not Hitler! I'm sorry,
he's not Hitler. He's Saddam.

We put him there.
Why? It suited us!

He's our fault,
always was. He's not a threat!

Have you met him,
Fred? Have you met Saddam?

Has Saddam looked you in
the eye and threatened you?

Has he threatened to kill you?

You don't know what
you're talking about.

STEVE: All right.

I think that's probably true.

I'm guilty of part of that.

VALERIE: Dessert?
Coffee? Any takers?

LISA: It was delicious.

JEFF: I do think he had a point.

He's making a separate point.

FRED: Obviously,
this needs to go elsewhere.

We have a rule in our
house. No politics at the table.

It always ends in a squabble.

Nobody knows what's
going on over there.

At the end of the day,
who really knows?

That's right, Sue. Who knows?

(CHATTERING IN ARABIC)

(DOOR OPENING)

Hammad.

(ZAHARA SPEAKING ARABIC)

(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(HONKS)

(CHATTERING IN ARABIC)

(CHUCKLES EXCITEDLY)

Cuckoo!

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

They have given
me questions for you.

What questions?

How close is your
program to a warhead?

When and where is
the first test scheduled?

How much 235-grade
uranium do you have?

Identify other scientists
of the program.

Who in the military
controls the program?

Which of the... Which...

What is it?

They don't know?

What, Hammad?

The program was completely
destroyed in the '90s.

The Americans destroyed
it. They know this.

(EXCLAIMS IN DISBELIEF)

What else?

(SIGHS)

How advanced is
the centrifuge facility?

Which method are you using
to separate fissile isotopes?

This is insane.

We don't have the spare
parts to keep a tank on the road.

I have to work at a plant which
develops fertilizer. They know.

(SPEAKING IN ARABIC)

They know this. They must know.

You need to see this.

We need to get Jack to see this,
and Bill.

FEMALE PROFESSOR: Ambassador
Wilson was the last American official

to meet with Saddam Hussein.

It was 1990,
and it was a pretty scary time.

Saddam threatened that
he was going to execute

anybody sheltering
people he called foreigners.

Ambassador Wilson
called a press conference

and appeared with a
noose around his neck.

And he said, the press reports,

"If the choice is to allow
Americans to be taken as hostages

"or to be executed,
I'll bring my own fucking rope."

Saddam backed down

and Ambassador Wilson helped
thousands get safely home.

When he himself came
home to the United States

he was warmly greeted
by our President,

who took him to the Oval Office
and introduced him to the War Cabinet

as an American hero.

That's not quite right. It was the
Roosevelt Room, not the Oval Office.

(STUDENTS LAUGH)

PROFESSOR: In the middle,
please?

Does Saddam pose an imminent
threat to national security?

VALERIE: Zahraa's brother
worked with 500 nuclear scientists

at the Safa factory.

In '91 it was
blanket-bombed by B-52's.

Hussein Kamel kept
the scientists together,

threatening to kill them
if they tried to leave.

But sanctions
destroyed the economy.

And when Kamel was executed in '95,
the team just drifted apart.

They're all saying the
same thing. Everyone.

There's no weapons program.

JIM: You've got 30 nuclear
scientists interrogated by Iraqis in Iraq

all saying the same thing.

BILL: Jim,
these people took a great risk.

To bring us what? I could
have saved us the airfare.

The White House is
getting stove-piped.

Someone is cherry-picking raw data
and serving it up to the press as fact.

Then they look to us
to confirm it. It's bullshit.

JOE: One of Saddam's
ministers asked him

why he had executed a certain
official who'd been a loyal supporter.

Saddam said,
"I would rather kill my friends in error

"than to allow my
enemies to live."

For me,
that's the mark of a monster.

(GUESTS APPLAUDING)

PRESIDENT BUSH: Vice President Cheney,
members of Congress,

distinguished citizens
and fellow citizens.

Every year, by law and by custom

we meet here to consider
the state of the Union.

Thank you so much.
You're welcome.

Wait,
we'd like you to have this coffee mug

and some pennants
for your kids. Thank you.

Thank you so much for
coming and speaking to us.

Drive safe out there.

PRESIDENT BUSH ON TV: The
gravest danger in the War on Terror.

The gravest danger facing
America and the world.

I'll have a black eye to go,
please.

What's that?

Two shots of espresso
in coffee. Black coffee.

US Intelligence indicates Saddam Hussein
has upwards of 30,000 munitions capable

of delivering chemical
agents. Thank you.

From three Iraqi defectors we
know that Iraq in the late 1990s

had several mobile
biological weapons labs.

Saddam Hussein had an advanced
nuclear weapons development program,

had a design for
a nuclear weapon,

and was working on five different
methods of enriching uranium for a bomb.

The British government has
learned that Saddam Hussein

recently sought significant
quantities of uranium from Africa.

Our intelligence sources tell us
that he has attempted to purchase

high-strength aluminum tubes
suitable for nuclear weapons production.

This nation fights reluctantly
because we know the cost.

We dread the days of
mourning that always come.

We seek peace.

We strive for peace.

And sometimes peace
must be defended.

MALE NEWSCASTER 1: In Baghdad,

42 cruise missiles and bunker
buster bombs from F-117's

were aimed at Iraq's leaders.

NEWSCASTER 2: Campaign
called Shock and Awe.

NEWSCASTER 3: He vowed the
US will accept no outcome but victory.

NEWSCASTER 4: For
approximately five to eight minutes.

(BABY CRYING)

(EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

(MEN SPEAKING IN ARABIC)

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

VALERIE: Bill? Wait up.

Every team is combing
the desert looking for WMDs.

Look, all I need is a couple...

We don't have the resources,
Val!

To get these
families... Listen to me!

Will you listen to me? Let's
say we extract these guys.

We bring them home
and put them on CNN.

What do you think
they're going to tell us

that the White House
wants to hear? Huh?

"Thank you, and by the way,
there was no nuclear program.

"There is no WMD.
P.S. You all knew that."

Think about it. Do you
want me to go to the DCI

and ask him to sign
off on his own funeral?

Bill, I gave my word.

That's not my problem.
I got bigger problems.

(CAR DOOR OPENING)

(CAR DOOR CLOSING)

It's like if there was a
baby on the ledge up on 7th.

No one would get up and save it

in case the White
House wanted it there.

Bill's right. This is just one snafu
in 1,000 that we have right now.

These scientists are not our...

These scientists are the WMD.

If we can't protect them, they'll run
straight to the first country who can

and they'll put them to work.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

I never said this. If anyone
ever asks I'll deny all knowledge.

How quietly can you do this?

(HINGES SQUEAKING)

(BOY CALLING OUT IN ARABIC)

(TRAFFIC BUSTLING)

(SIREN WAILING)

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(GUNS FIRING)

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(HAMMAD SPEAKING IN ARABIC)

I need to know my
family will be safe.

My wife, my children,
we're all in danger.

VALERIE: Hammad, I know that.

We'll take care of your family
but we have to move fast, okay?

How do I know I can trust you?

Hammad, listen to me,
do exactly as I say. We won't let you down.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

MALE NEWSCASTER ON
TV: The US Military has reported

the death of another five
US soldiers on Wednesday.

One soldier died
after being struck

by a bomb while on foot patrol.

Reported killed
across the country.

Official Iraqi figures
show that 966...

The British government has
learned that Saddam Hussein...

significant
quantities of uranium

from Africa.

The British government has
learned that Saddam Hussein

recently sought significant
quantities of uranium from Africa.

JOE: Listen, Pete, I want to ask
you something. It's very important.

Is it possible that the
President is referring

to another African country,
not Niger?

I've seen the INR. It's Niger.

He's referring specifically to
yellowcake from Niger. Why?

I'm the source. I went to
Niger. It's wrong. It's not true.

I see.

What exactly are
you proposing to do?

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Do you want my advice?

Do nothing. You
already did your job.

You did your best,
you came home. End of story.

We're talking about Niger.
Yellowcake from Niger.

I don't have to go
all the way to Africa

to know something's
messed up here.

Three months and
what have we found?

No centrifuges, no yellowcake,
no bio, no WMDs.

You think something's up,
here? Join the line.

It stretches all the way from
State to the Pentagon and back.

Why hasn't anybody
stepped forward?

Why do you think, Joe?

We went to war.

Listen, as your friend now,

just be smart.

You have a wife and a family.

We're talking about the
President of the United States.

The White House.

Go take a long look in the
mirror and say that again.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING ON TV)

What's wrong?

Nothing.

I'm just tired.

Are the kids asleep?

Yeah, they're asleep.

Okay, good.

I'm gonna go up.

There are some who feel
like the conditions are such

that they can attack us there.

My answer is, bring them on.

We've got the force necessary
to deal with the security situation.

(REPORTERS CLAMORING)

There's zero, nada,
nothing new here.

I think the President's
statement at the State of the Union

goes much broader
than the Niger question.

Is the President's
statement correct?

(STUTTERING) Yes. I see
nothing that goes broader

that would indicate
there was no basis

for the President's
broader statement.

But,
specifically on the yellowcake from Niger,

we have acknowledged
that that did in fact

turn out to be a forgery.

Oh, shit.

I'm sorry?

The British report.

Um...

Mark, clear my morning.

It was wrong, then?

(STUTTERING) Let me do this,
David. On David's specific question.

I'm going to come
back to you on that.

(REPORTERS CLAMORING)

Fleischer plowed the briefing.

I saw.

CBS knows yellowcake was
pulled from Cincinnati 10 weeks ago.

At the CIA's request.

They also had that Gerson
wrote both speeches.

Karl is looking for
you. He's unhappy.

I want a transcript
of everything across

network, blogs, and print citing

Ambassador Wilson,
Niger or yellowcake.

Tell Karl I'll be in my
office straight after I'm done.

DAN RATHER ON TV: The
5th US Circuit Court of Appeals...

This has become a trust
issue for the President.

We can't get behind on this.

A Democratic-led Senate
Judiciary committee...

We need to change the story.

Who is Joe Wilson?

A new controversy
over re-targeting

some of America's
nuclear weapons.

There will be more at the
President's press conference.

David?

If someone works at the CIA
and they sent their spouse on a trip,

would there be a paper trail?

Any such request would require
approval from the chain of command.

From the requestor right up
to the Director of Operations.

Yes,
paperwork would normally be generated.

Okay.

Does the President have the
power to declassify information?

Valerie?

What?

"The CIA's decision to send
retired diplomat Joseph C. Wilson..."

Further down.

"Wilson never worked
for the CIA but his wife..."

"Is an agency operative on
weapons of mass destruction."

He just went ahead and did it.

Does this run overseas?

It's in the newspaper,
Valerie. It's on the news.

Novak's column. Is he
syndicated overseas?

It's everywhere.

God.

(OPENING TAP)

VALERIE: Jessica McDowell.
Maureen McDermont.

I just flew in from Scotland.

MAN 1: Valerie, what do you do?

I work in venture capital.

Grace Semel. Sigma Chemicals.

Paris, Milan, Vienna.

MAN 2: Who are you?

DIRECTOR: We need a matrix of
everyone you've come into contact with

in a covert capacity.

I've already started a list.

Good. We need to get an idea,
fast, of how much this thing bleeds.

Sir, I have several live-ops at
crucial stages. People in the field

in critical windows
of operation.

One thing at a time.

Make a list, then come back
here. Don't do anything else.

Why is Internal Security here?

To help you and us conduct
this damage assessment.

Ms. Plame? We're going this way.

(DOOR OPENING)

The restroom.

Ms. Plame?

Ms. Plame?

Ms. Plame?

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Val? Val!

Jack,
I've got to get a message to Baghdad.

I've got 15 scientists being
taken to the border today.

I have to get word to them.

I don't know what
you're talking about.

Jack,
they're packed and ready to go.

You know what this means.

Sorry. I've got to go.

INTERNAL SECURITY
OFFICER: Ms. Plame.

Val, can I see you for a minute?

Take a walk.

As of this morning,
all CPD operations involving you

have been suspended.

Effective immediately,
you're to have no further contact

with assets or
agents in the field.

Any further involvement in
operations is no longer possible.

Bill, I have eight,
nine teams in the fieL.

We have assets in Kuala Lumpur,
Mumbai, Dubai.

I need to brief my replacement
in the Joint Task Force.

The head of the JTFI's
identity is classified

for reasons of
operational security.

I have a critical operation

in Baghdad in a major...

Val, I'm sorry.

It's over.

You were a good officer,

but it's over.

(DISTANT GUNFIRE)

(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

(HAMMAD'S WIFE SPEAKING ARABIC)

"Two senior administration
officials told me

"that Wilson's wife
suggested sending him to Niger

"to investigate
the Italian report."

This comes from
the Vice President,

the Chief of Staff,
or a top advisor.

I got to go.

TREVOR: Look
at my picture. I will.

SAMANTHA: Trevor won't let
me borrow his Power Ranger.

Mommy!

VALERIE: Did you say please?

I said please!

There's a 1982 act

that says it's a crime
for a government official

to knowingly disclose
a covert agent.

It comes with a $50,000 fine
and/or up to 10 years in jail.

(PHONE RINGING)

Don't answer the phone,
honey. It's been ringing all day.

Do not... Who have
you spoken... Joe?

Please don't. Joe, Joe...

She is. Hello?

I'm sorry, honey. Are you okay?

She's right here.

It's Lisa.

Hello?

Valerie,
your name is in the paper.

(CHUCKLES) It says
you're a CIA agent.

Look, I can't talk right now.

Well,
I can't make a comment. TREVOR: Mom!

Look, I'm going to call you back tomorrow,
okay?

I'm really sorry.

Oh, my God.

Shit.

It's got to be true.

(SIGHING)

Your mom called. Your
uncle. Janey in Chicago.

I wrote it down there for you.

And Andrea Mitchell called.

She said White House sources say

the real story is not the 16 words,
but Joe Wilson and his wife.

Did I care to comment?

Well,
I damn well do care to comment,

and she's asked me on the
show the day after tomorrow.

No.

You're not going on TV, Joe.

Thank you.

JOE: This was clearly designed
as a shot across the bow

for those who
might step forward,

those unnamed analysts who
said that pressure was put on them

by the White House, for example,

would think twice about
having their own family's name

dragged through
this particular mud.

I didn't prepare for this moment.
I had no plan for this day.

DIANA: When did you join?

'85, straight out of college.

Wow, that's...

Eighteen years.

So, did they find you, or...

No, I approached them.

And did Joe know?

Yes.

Your parents?

Yes, but that's all.

So,
do you have lovers all over the world?

(CHUCKLES)

(WHISPERING) Do you have a gun?

Have you killed people?

I can't. I...

I can't tell you anything.

You can't tell me anything.

Okay. All right.

So, do you want to go shopping?

See a movie? Mani-pedi?

Diana.

(CHILDREN PLAYING)

Hi, Mom.

(SAMANTHA WHOOPING)

MAN: Did your wife
send you to Niger?

I was not sent by my wife,
but the issue is not who sent me,

it's whether or not a
crime was committed.

(PHONE RINGING)

SAMANTHA: I'm going to get it!

TREVOR: I'm
going to get it! I got it!

Hello?

Hello?

WOMAN: Your
husband is a communist.

I hope you die,
you commie whore.

We know where you live.

Who is this?

SAMANTHA: Trevor! Who...

(PHONE HANGS UP)

TREVOR: Beat it!

(BANGS RECEIVER)

Mommy,
Trevor won't let me go on his tractor.

Okay. So,
find something else to play. I don't...

Mommy?

Mommy?

What? What?

(PHONE RINGING)

"He stayed inside for
more than two weeks.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

"Then he nibbled..."

Zahraa?

Hammad has disappeared. His wife,
his children are missing.

My uncle in Mansour,
he said they were targeting them.

They were killing them.

Who? Hammad's colleagues.

Dr. Habbuk was shot
dead in the street.

Dr. Falli was
murdered in his hallway.

Listen...

I know you can't
tell me where he is.

Just tell me you have him. Please,
I beg you.

I don't need to know
anything. Just tell me he's safe.

We don't have him.

You said he would be safe.

You said we would
help you. You promised.

I trusted you.

The Justice Department
need to establish

whether those in the highest
office sought to destroy the career

of a public servant to
punish me for telling the truth.

What's going on?

What are you doing here?

Falli. Hubbuk. Who else?

I don't know what
you're talking about.

Don't bullshit me.
Who else is dead?

You were right. It was
all about the scientists.

We made a call.

A call?

We passed your
case files to liaison.

Mossad were already
on the same page.

They've been hunting these
guys down since the invasion.

You'll drive them underground.
They'll run straight to Iran. Pakistan.

Valerie, it's not your problem.

How can you sleep at night?

I sleep just fine.

Now,
Carol's mother is here. I'm sorry,

but I'm going to have
to ask you to leave.

It's called counter-proliferation,
Jack.

Counter.

Linda,
are you still here? It's late.

At the end of the day,
it's of keen interest to me

whether or not we see Karl Rove

frog-marched out
of the White House

in handcuffs. And believe me,
when I use that name,

I measure my words.

(CROWD CHEERING)

GIRL: Mr. Wilson! Excuse me.

GIRL: We came all the
way from Portland for this.

Hello. Okay.

My wife and I have
never sought publicity,

but I know when I tell her about
all of the support out here today,

she'll be thrilled and humbled.

(PHONE RINGING)

(CHILDREN CHATTERING)

Hello? Valerie, turn on MSNBC.

SAMANTHA: Mom,
why can't I have some juice?

Okay. Hold on one second.

They've launched
an investigation.

Ashcroft just announced it.

They say he's going
to convene a grand jury.

Hold on a second.

The FBI now is conducting
a criminal investigation

into who leaked the name of
the CIA undercover operative...

I'm going to be back later.
I've got to go over to Fox.

They want me to comment
on the investigation.

Joe, just hold on.

JOE: Valerie,
we've got to fight this.

We cannot... We've
got to push back.

SAMANTHA: Mom! Where's my doll?

I've got another
call. I gotta go.

Joe! You have to...

Joe Wilson.

Joe, it's Chris Matthews.
I just spoke to Karl Rove.

He told me,
"Wilson's wife is fair game."

Thank you for coming here.

I wanted to convey my
outrage to you in person.

I know it's not easy,
but I want you to know

how much the Agency appreciates
your silence in the light of this matter.

We can't afford to have this
knife fight go on any longer.

I get death threats every day.

People threaten to kill my husband,
hurt my children.

I went to the Agency

and I requested security
to protect my family.

I was declined because,
"My circumstances

"fall outside budget protocols."

If this is a knife fight, sir,
right now we're fighting it alone.

(SCOFFS)

Joe Wilson versus the White House,
huh?

Well,
all I can say is good luck.

But I feel, as a friend,
I should tell you

that those men,
those few men in that building over there,

are the most powerful men
in the history of the world.

How much of a stretch do you think
it'd be for them to take on Joe Wilson?

Joe is out there on his own,
Valerie,

but I know we can trust you.

Speak to your husband.

Tucker Carlson says,
"Wilson's wife sent him on a boondoggle."

Says, "He needed the work."

Who needs to work for free?

It's not like Niger is renowned for
its fine dining and celebrated operas.

It reminds me of Paris.

Listen. Someone from Vanity Fair called,
they want to do a piece.

They want to do a full-scale interview,
photographs.

Tell the whole story.

What do you think about that?

What do I think?

Do I want my photograph in
Vanity Fair? Is that the question?

Valerie, this is our chance.

To do what?

To tell our side of the story.

It'll mean a dozen,
maybe 50 TV appearances.

We have to do that.

They're killing us on Fox,
in the blogs.

They're drowning us out.
We've got to strike back.

What? What's
wrong? What did I say?

Don't you get it, Joe? I mean,
where does all of this stop?

Our address is on the Internet.

A photo of our house.

I've changed our phone number,
what, five times now?

My name... My name is
everywhere! My real name, Joe!

Where does all of this
tough-talk and publicity and noise,

and all of this bullshit that you're doing,
where does it get us?

Where?

Andy Card told
the Financial Times

that they are rolling earthmovers
over Joe Wilson. "Earthmovers."

Well, I'm sorry,
you're not going to get me without a fight.

Not without one hell of a fight.

It's the White House,
Joe. It's the White House.

Do you seriously think you can pick
a fight with the White House and win?

They'll bury us!

They'll bury us if we don't!

Joe. Listen to me, Valerie.

No, no, you listen to me!

Valerie! Valerie! Valerie!

Does that make me right
if I shout louder than you?

If I shout louder than you,
am I right?

If I'm the White House and I shout
a million times louder than you,

does that make me right?

They lied, Valerie.

They lied. That's the truth.

Truth. Right.

Well,
by the time they're finished with us,

we won't know what that is.

SAMANTHA: Mom!

Great.

TREVOR: Look, Mommy.

Is Scooter home?

What's that?

The Senate just
finished its investigation.

The findings of the Select Committee
on Intelligence, all 511 pages.

Check out page 39.

Hi, Daddy!

Who's the prettiest?

Hey there, monster. How are you?

Go get there. Get some
play in before it starts to rain.

What's that?

That's the Senate Select
Committee Intelligence report.

On page 39,

it says, "The former ambassador's
wife offered up his name."

It then includes a memorandum
written by Valerie Plame

which says, "My husband has good
relations with both the Prime Minister

"and the former
Minister of Mines,

"both of whom could shed
light on this sort of activity."

This is exactly what
I've been denying.

No. No.

I've been to every newspaper,
every television, radio,

anybody that would listen to me,

saying my wife did not
send me on a junket.

I didn't send you. I
didn't have that power.

You sent an e-mail.

The SSCI found the e-mail.

I write hundreds of e-mails.
Why didn't you tell me?

It never occurred to you, in all this time,
that this would be important?

I didn't make the decision. I was
asked to write a recommendation.

What was I supposed to do? Not
say my husband knows about this?

Well, they have this now.

They'll call me a
liar and it will stick.

'Cause they have all the power.

What do I have? My word.

You've got to speak up, Valerie.

You've got to go on the record
now. You've got to defend us. Now.

So what do you want me to do?

Go to the papers like you did?
Write a piece in The New York Times?

You know I'd have to
submit it to the Agency...

SAMANTHA: Daddy! Wait,
wait, wait.

Honey, go play. Go on, go on.

The Agency?

Valerie, who's your loyalty
to? To your husband or the CIA?

It's to my family. I put my family first,
always.

Were you putting them first when
you wrote that goddamn article?

TREVOR: Mommy!

Trevor?

Go find Samantha.

I'm taking different
routes to and from school.

I'm looking in empty rooms,
under beds, every time I come home.

A home we're going
to lose pretty soon

because your work has dried up
and your clients are running for cover.

What has all this achieved, Joe?

Maybe you're right.

Maybe I just should
have kept my mouth shut.

Is that what your dad taught you,
Valerie?

Is that what Colonel
Sam Plame would say?

A good American just
keeps his mouth shut.

A good American just
looks the other way?

Did you send me to Niger?

His business is struggling,
he's on the slide.

I'll pull a few strings,
send the old man a bone.

Is that pretty much
what happened?

How dare you.

Did you send me?

You think I'm lying to you.

Could I tell if you were?

Trevor? Honey?

Come on,
Sam. Let's get in the car.

Bye, guys! I'll see you at home.

Bye, Daddy!

Bye!

I'm taking my car, okay?

Joe Wilson was a
shameless self-promoter.

Everything about his
story was either a lie

or a hoax or he was incompetent.

I think this is important.
If we're in time of war

and you want to know
what the President said

or what the President didn't say,
whether it's accurate or not,

and you have someone who says,
"I'm sent over there

"by the Vice President
of the United States

"and George Tenet
to investigate this,"

and instead it turns
out he was sent over

at the recommendation
of his wife...

MALE REPORTER 1: There he
is! MALE REPORTER 2: Is it him?

Mr. Wilson... This
is private property.

You're trespassing.

Mr. Wilson,
did the Vice President...

Please get off my property!

I have no comment! FEMALE
REPORTER: Mr. Wilson,

was the Niger trip a free
holiday? Get off the property.

A boondoggle? Have you
been lying to us from the start?

I never lied. I didn't
receive any payment.

My wife didn't send me. Now,
leave.

Did the taxpayers
pay for your vacation...

All of you, leave!

Mr. Wilson? It
wasn't a vacation.

It was a fact-finding mission
in the lead-up to a war.

What? What? REPORTER
3: Are you against our troops?

Get off my property! Are
you against our troops?

All the way off the property!

FEMALE REPORTER: Mr. Wilson,
people are saying

that your wife doesn't
actually work for the CIA.

Is it true she's
just a secretary?

REPORTER 4: Mr. Wilson,
is it true that you

donated money to
the Kerry campaign?

FEMALE REPORTER: Mr. Wilson,
your wife's a nobody!

Well,
I think it's really all about the money.

We're talking about
a third-rate CIA agent

who had a government salary,
and now she's out.

She could have transferred
somewhere else within the CIA.

She didn't have to leave. Probably
the CIA wanted her to leave

because she had already been in
the press without their permission.

It's come out that
she was considered

kind of a mediocre
agent at best.

Can I just take this pillow?

When we were at The Farm
training to be field officers,

they picked out four or five
of us and told us we stood out.

We were bound, hooded,
thrown into separate cells.

They deprived us of sleep,

beat us.

All we had to do was give up
the name of one of the others.

Just one name.

They push you
until they find it.

Until they find the
point at which you break.

And one by one, everybody broke

except me.

And that made me feel special.

You can't break me.

I don't have a breaking point.

I was wrong.

I'm gonna walk down the stairs
because I can't run down them.

VALERIE: Okay. You go safely,
but, let's go. Quickly.

Don't forget your
jacket. Trevor.

Okay,
say goodbye to your father.

Hey, guys.

SAMANTHA: We're
going on a mystery tour!

I know you are. Come
here. Come here.

I'm going to see
you both real soon.

Why aren't you coming, Daddy?

I'm going to see
you really soon.

Okay,
let's get in the car, guys.

You got it?

Come on, let's go, guys.

Okay.

SAMANTHA: I'm getting soaked!

(SIGHS)

Grandma! Grandma.

Hi, baby. Hi.

Hello, Mom.

Hi, baby, how are you?

Hey, Trevor, my goodness,
how big you are! Come on in.

MRS. PLAME: Okay,
now do you want a red one or a green one?

SAMANTHA: Red one! Okay.

TREVOR: Red one!

Here's a red one and...

SAMANTHA: Apple?

Apple and caramels, I think.

So,
what color apple do you want?

SAMANTHA: Red. Okay.

TREVOR: Green.

You want a green? Oh,
good. I'm glad.

(CRYING)

FEMALE NEWSCASTER ON TV:
Afghanistan could quickly revert back to...

The governments of
Niger and Burkina Faso

are interested in exploiting the gold
reserves along their common border.

There's not a lot of interest,
as gold's at $150 an ounce.

(MALE REPORTER CHATTERING ON TV)

But it would compliment your holdings in
East Africa and the concession's cheap.

My friend.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

Joe Wilson.

Karl Moleo Guderron.

Such a pleasure.
Nice to meet you.

How is your wife, Joe?

She's fine. She's well. She's...

Excuse me? Can I just... A black eye,
two shots of espresso, strong coffee.

I'm not very hungry.

How long are you in town?

Just a few days.

Komolea and I are excited
to hear your proposal.

Can I help you? Excuse me,
can I help you?

No. I was just telling these men that you,
sir, are a fraud.

This is a private lunch.

Could you leave now,
please? Thank you.

This man is a
liar and a traitor.

He is in the pay of left-wing
hate groups. She's just a reporter.

He's a Democrat stooge
and he's an anti-war zealot.

He has stabbed our
troops in the back!

Okay, leave now.

Excuse me, I'm very sorry.

Wilson,
you've got blood on your hands

and your wife is a
traitor and a fantasist.

Okay, okay, leave my table.

How dare you talk about my wife.

You don't know her,
you don't know me.

Now leave now!

Very nice.

You gentlemen should
know... She's gonna leave.

You're having
lunch with a traitor!

I think we should leave.

Please, don't. No, we should.

Did you hear the way
that this man just...

Shame on you.

You call yourself a reporter?

Shame on you! You're nothing
but a self-promoting hack!

Bitch.

Taxi!

Palisades.

(SIGHS)

You okay?

I'm fine.

You're him. I see you on TV.

You're Joe Wilson.

No, I'm not.

Yes, brother, I see you on TV.

That's somebody else.

No, no, I know you.

My name is Joe,
too. I'm from Sierra Leone. Freetown.

You've been there,
right? You like Freetown?

Joe,
you and I both know Freetown's a shithole.

That's the truth.

That's the truth right there,
brother.

Yes, indeed,
Sierra Leone is dying.

There's too much injustice
and corruption in Sierra Leone.

People at the top have too much power,
way too much power.

But people can't see
that from over here.

Over here, in America,
it's a different world.

I wouldn't be so sure of that.

How can you say that?

Land of the free, brother,
home of the brave.

Joe,
could you pull over? I'm just gonna...

Pull over here, I'm gonna walk.

Keep the change.

SAM: That's cheating!

SAMANTHA: I got it!

SAM: Ready?

Above your head! Above
your head! Swing your rope!

How is he?

He's okay. He's better.

He's shaking through.

SAMANTHA: I win. (GIGGLES)

SAM: There. There they are.

Do you see those guys?
Those little yellow fellas?

Yeah, I see them.

See that?

There's a name for them. I
used to know the name for them.

Some kind of...
They're beautiful.

I think my marriage is over,
Dad.

I know my little gal doesn't say
anything until she absolutely has to.

There's going to be another
Congressional Investigation.

He wants me to speak
out. Go on the record.

Like that would suddenly
make all of this go away.

We can't even
speak to each other.

I can remember saying
exactly the same thing.

July,
'72. Me and your mom weren't getting along,

we were fighting all the time.

I guess she just plain had
enough of moving house.

It wasn't until I retired,
25 years in the Air Force,

that I realized that we
never did have a home.

We must have moved 20 different times,
I don't know.

Germany. Singapore.
Australia. England.

You had 20 different chances to
introduce yourself as someone new.

You turned out all right,
though. Okay. I mean, you're responsible.

A little too serious, maybe.

It made you tough,
though, huh? Real tough.

(CHUCKLES)

Probably tougher than me and
your mom could ever understand.

I just can't see how
this comes around.

Not this time.

Not anymore.

What they did was wrong,
Val. It was just plain wrong.

Don't you ever forget that.

You know, say if through some
miracle you get through this thing,

I mean, there's no guarantee
you and Joe won't fight.

You know,
he's a stubborn son of a bitch.

I mean, he's not going to
give up any more than you are.

SAMANTHA: Grandpa, look.

I swear to God she's going to
keep at that thing until she licks it.

Come on, raise your hand up!

There you go!

Good shot.

I'm going to do it again!

SAM: Yeah.

(CHUCKLES) Good try!

CHRIS MATTHEWS ON
TV: Maybe the final results.

Shit. Mom?

And it's turned
out to be bad news

for one member of
the White House team,

and a central figure he is,
Scooter Libby. Five counts.

And as Brian Williams just said
on NBC News, in that special report,

30 years he faces right now.

And I want to talk right now to Dan Abrams,
my colleague,

who handles these
legal matters...

You can imagine that
the letter of resignation

was probably drafted
somewhat in advance

and that there were
indications in the past...

FEMALE NEWSCASTER: What is next?

Lawyers for Lewis Scooter Libby

are preparing his defense
following his indictment on Friday.

(PHONE RINGING)

Meanwhile, President Bush is
set to announce his next nominee

to replace Sandra Day
O'Connor on the Supreme Court.

(PHONE RINGING)

MAN: Karl Rove
escaped indictment today,

but according to sources still
faces a possible perjury charge.

WOLF BLITZER ON TV: Now,
two things here.

First of all,
the Karl Rove business about today,

the fact that he was
not indicted today

is certainly what you would
call interim good news,

but it can only be
called interim good news

because as you know,
the investigation,

insofar as he is concerned,
is going to...

(DOOR OPENING)

They served up Scooter
Libby. He's going to take the fall.

I'm sure they've
already brokered a deal.

He takes the fall, the deck is stacked,
he gets pardoned.

I bet there won't
even be a trial.

I don't care what
they say about us.

I don't care how angry you get.

If they take all of this away,
I don't care.

They do not get to
take my marriage.

I'm so sorry.

You did good.

I did it for me.

I know why you did it.

Thank you.

If I could give
it back to you...

If I could give you
back who you were...

This is who I am.

Right here.

(SNIFFLES)

(EXHALING DEEPLY)

Are you ready to fight?

Good.

How many of you
know the 16 words

in President Bush's State of the
Union address that led us to war?

How many know my wife's name?

Valerie Plame. Valerie Plame.

Now,
how can you know one and not the other?

When did the question move
from "Why are we going to war?"

to "Who is this man's wife?"

I asked the first question,
but somebody else asked the second.

And it worked.

Because none of
us know the truth.

The offense that was committed
was not committed against me,

it was not committed
against my wife.

It was committed against you.

All of you.

Now, if that makes you
angry or feel misrepresented,

do something about it.

When Benjamin Franklin
left Independence Hall

just after the second drafting,

he was approached by
a woman on the street.

The woman said, "Mr. Franklin,

"what manner of government
have you bequeathed us?"

And Franklin said,
"A Republic, madam.

"If you can keep it."

The responsibility of a country

is not in the hands
of a privileged few.

We are strong,
and we are free from tyranny

as long as each one of us
remembers his or her duty as a citizen.

Whether it's to report a
pothole at the top of your street

or lies in a State of
the Union address,

speak out! Ask those questions.

Demand that truth.

Democracy is not a free ride,
man.

I'm here to tell you.

But, this is where we live.

And if we do our job,
this is where our children will live.

God bless America.

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

CONGRESSMAN: Ms. Wilson,
we're pleased to have you here.

Thank you very much for
coming to our committee today.

It's the practice
of this committee

that all witnesses are
administered an oath.

And I'd like to ask you to
stand and raise your right hand.

Do you promise to tell the
truth and nothing but the truth?

I do. Please be seated.

Now,
there's a button on the base of the mike.

Be sure to press it in and
pull it closely enough to you

so you can be heard.

Good morning,
Mr. Chairman and members of the committee.

My name is Valerie Plame Wilson.

And I'm honored to have
been invited to testify under oath

before the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform

on the critical issue of
safeguarding classified information.

I'm grateful for this opportunity
to set the record straight.

I served the United States
loyally and to the best of my ability

as a covert operations officer for
the Central Intelligence Agency.

I worked on behalf of the
national security of our country,

on behalf of the people
of the United States,

until my name
and true affiliations

were exposed in
the national media

on July 14th, 2003,
after a leak by administration officials.

Today,
I can tell this committee even more.

In the run-up to
the war with Iraq,

I worked in the counter-proliferation
division of the CIA,

still as a covert officer whose
affiliation with the CIA was classified.

I raced to discover solid
intelligence for senior policymakers

on Iraq's presumed weapons
of mass destruction programs.

While I helped to manage and
run secret world-wide operations

against this WMD target from
CIA headquarters in Washington,

I also traveled to foreign
countries on secret missions

to find vital intelligence.

I loved my career
because I love my country.

I was proud of the
serious responsibilities

entrusted to me as a CIA
covert operations officer.