11 Biggest Political Scandals of All Time

7. The Plame Affair

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This political scandal involves a journalist Robert Novak, a former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and his wife, a CIA agent, Valerie Plame Willson. What happened was that in his column, Robert Novak identified Valerie Plame as a CIA covert agent. Her husband, Joseph Wilson stated that this act was a payback coming from the Bush administration for his skeptical views, which he published in the New York Times magazine, about the main reason for an invasion of Iraq. Allegedly, Bush attacked Iraq only to “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people”, and Wilson raised many questions about the truth of this statement and concluded that “Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat”. Even though this raised a criminal investigation and it was found out that a State Department official, Richard Armitage, was the one who told Novak about the Valerie Palme’s CIA status, in the end, no one was charged for the leak of this classified information.

 

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