A revealing and entirely credible look at the evil of Bush-Chenyvil

"Fair Game" is fairly good - by no means great. On the plus side, this film about the Valerie Plame-Joe Wilson incident, in which Wilson wrote an NYT op-ed documenting that the GW Bush assertion that Iraq was buying enriched uranium (Bush made the clain in a State of the Union address justifying the invasion) was patently false, which led Cheney's team (Scooter Libby was the heavy and of course became the fall guy -Cheney himself never ever did anything wrong) to out Wilson's wife as a CIA operative and make their lives a living hell. The movie seems very closely based on the facts as we know them (I suspect it might have played up the importance of Plame in the CIA and her bravery), and it's entirely revealing about the Bush admin. I work in government and can assure anyone that there are plenty of times that someone in public life makes a statement or writes a piece that the agency head feels is very damaging and wrong - but our response is always to respond with reason in a public forum. I have never once heard anyone say: hey, let's go after him. Let's dish the dirt on his wife, etc. But it's entirely believable that Cheney et al. acted that way all the time, and if I never see the image of him or Bush again that will be just fine, the movie does a service in reminding us of their nefarious nature. On the down side, Fair Game stays on the surface of events. We rarely get a glimpse into the interior lives of Plame and Wilson - what made her choose such a career, how did they get together, what makes them tick? Naomi Watts (as Plame) and Sean Penn (as Wilson) are both really good, though, as they always are. Amazing the range of roles Penn has played recently.