Valerie Plame Quotes
Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
Plame Wilson, Valerie. Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
He was discussion the role of the media in terms of psychological national security in the wake of the September 11 attack.
Hamilton, then the Treasury Secretary, had proposed the creation of a national bank with the seemingly incredible notion of having it run by private individuals and not responsive to Congress. The experience of Europe and the individual states convinced Hamilton and some others that no government, monarchy or republic, could resist the temptation to print money rather than deal with basic economic problems. If in private hands, and least to protect their wealth, the bankers would not debase the national currency. Hamilton’s view actually prevailed with some Jacksonian adjustments and interruptions along the way. Today, the Federal Reserve Banks are to a great extent private. But neither Congress nor the President can control the money supply. There are some who object for just the reason that they feel that in a democracy all the levers of government should be under the control of the representatives of the people.
Von Mises was one of the few right wing conservatives who would admit that private business could not operate government functions well. It was the very nature of government service and operation which makes its operation inimical to profit making business practices and methods.
The first part of this quotation has defined the attitude of most Americans towards private enterprise and government since then. The second part of the quotation—the undesirability of public ownership of railroads has given way to the modern problem that no passenger railroad can be operated profitably by anyone—private or public. So Roosevelt’s “far-reaching disaster” was finally complete with the Federal Government taking over responsibility for Amtrack.
Valerie Elise Plame Wilson, is an American writer, spy novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington Post.
