Talk:Larisa Alexandrovna

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[edit] Articles of note

Ms. Alexandrovna is an impressive journalist and I like her writing and reporting. Nonetheless, as a Wikipedia editor I think that the list of "notable" articles has grown beyond the basic limits of notability. In fact, this is beginning to resemble a CV. Until an article achieves recognizable noteworthiness, like making a big scoop or winning an award, maybe it shouldn't be added. I presume that the writer has a website with a full list of her articles, so a link to that site should suffice for listing all of the non-award-winning pieces. Cheers, -Willmcw 09:17, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

i'll try to clean this page up and get rid of many of the articles in the next few days Lukery 05:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moved from the article

this article is okay, but it needs a lot of work. I started to reformat it. The majority of the article is what Larisa wrote. I moved this section from the main page:

===Interviews of note===

John Conyers

Nuking the Spin: Scott Ritter series

Conversations with Machiavelli's Ghost: Michael Ledeen series

Ambassador Joseph Wilson, see also: Plame Affair

Note: it is in the Wilson interview that Alexandrovna suggests the involvement of John Bolton in the Plame leak:

"Bolton’s senior advisor and sometimes chief of staff, Frederick Fleitz, was on loan from the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center. During a Senate Foreign Relations round table discussion, Fleitz described one of his duties to the Bolton office as '...liaison function for the Agency and Mr. Bolton.' This puts Fleitz or might put Fleitz inside Valerie’s circle."

In talk show appearances, Alexandrovna has described the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame as operating in two parts: the front-end sell and the back-end leak. The sell, she argues, is from WHIG to Judith Miller to media and press. The back-end leak is from Michael Ledeen, John Bolton, Fredrick Fleitz to State Department.