just toss it. >> question 4 valerie plame. you mentioned going out for lunch, trying to recruit assets. what happens if those assets tell you i read in the newspaper recently fat you had a number of double agents to reveal the names of people who cooperated with the u.s. government and are now dead. what is your response? what do you tell that person? >> my personal case, what happened to me was the week of my name. the initial reaction was my career is over but there's a broader warning sign to those thinking about they have something for whatever reason they want to share with you is intelligence, back to your last question, sometimes it is a good thing that everyone in country knows who the chief of station is because you know with whom you are dealing. in any case say they decide they are working themselves up to making that approach. week of mining happened and they say wait a minute. they need a key point of their own safe. why would i put myself and my family in harm's way? i will talk to the russians. they can keep a s

valerie plame has written "blowback". the last time i saw that term i have not read this particular book but it is the reaction action which after ned 11 was the hardest book to get off the shelf it was the most anticipated book so this is "blowback" of the fictional level then we have david ignatius best selling author but his death is all made into movies i hope yours will as well but i was on a cruise in the caribbean and i fantasize to be the director. >> they are casting. [laughter] have your agent call someone [laughter] >> host: to begin with. is this the frustrated journalists? and entranced with the bureaucracy managing degrees secrets. i sort of felt i was reading graham's voice. >> it goes without saying any character is in some way a projection of the author. that is what is fun about being a novelist with the scenes and experiences you have never had. i said who i had in mind for the character and he said absolutely not. but it to have that existence becomes director afterburning a communications company so i

the movie about valerie plame. i met her, i sort of downloaded -- and she was like, "do you want to go to langley?" and so i went to the cia and met women in their 30s who are cia officers. >> seth: and you play a character who has sort of a complicated love life. did you ask them, just ask them about their spy work, did you ask them about their personal lives? i assume it's really complicated for them. >> oh, my gosh, you can't really even ask them what they're doing at work. what i really wanted to know, what kind of car do you drive, does your mom know what you do for a living? who do you go out with? if you're on a date, the opening questions are, like, where do you live? i can't tell you. what do you do? no, no, i can't tell you. [ light laughter ] >> seth: it seems like small talk would not be very easy. their match.com profiles must be almost entirely redacted. [ laughter ] >> it's just a blank picture. >> seth: who do they date? did you find out? >> one girl that i met, one young woman. i had seen her earli

in '06, special prosecutor patrick fitzgerald hit a road block when e-mails relating to the valerie plame leak investigation went missing. fitzgerald explained, and i quote, not all e-mail of the office of the vice president and the executive office of the president for certain time periods in '03 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the white house computer system. in '09, the department of justice investigated a so-called torture memo, but one key bush administration official's relevant e-mails had been, quote, deleted and reportedly were not recoverecoverable. i understand you were not the archivist in the previous administration but i assume you agree that the irs is not the only agency to have lost e-mails related to congressional investigation, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> i assume you also agree that the federal has had significant and long-standing challenges with records retention, especially that of e-mails. >> from the very beginning of the government. >> from the very beginning. >> and using paper. this is not just an e-mail problem. this is a record

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attorney firing and outing of covert cia agent valerie plame and a host of other matters. our committee played an integral role in investigating these problems. representative henry waxman, our former chairman, engaged in a constructive effort to find solutions to these challenges. he hosted monthly meetings with the archivist and the white house counsel's office to monitor progress in implementing recommendations. i believe the archivist would agree with his predecessor that those meetings served a useful purpose. today the white house system automatically preserves e-mails from all employee e-mail accounts. since 2008, there's been additional progress. on november 28th, 2011, president obama issued a directive to agencies managing federal records. the president also directed the archivist and director of the office on management and budget to craft a modernized framework to improve agency performance and begin managing e-mail records in electronic formats by 2016. i look forward to hearing a status report on these efforts. i also archivist will give us his view on legisl

valerie plame and david ignatius to join me up here, great to see all of you. i don't know about you but i already had both of my books signed. i want to show the real power, david bradley is -- david doesn't like when i do this but i want everyone to know