She has served as the managing editor of investigative news of The Raw Story and contributes opinion and columns to online publications such as AlterNet.
[1] Alexandrovna was born in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR to Jewish parents Aleksander Yurovich, a physicist, and Klavdia Borisovna, an accountant.
[2]The family came to the United States after traveling an "entire year maneuvering our way throughout Europe in the common trajectory of Soviet refugees at the time.
However, a series of articles on the prewar intelligence on Iraq and alleged illegal activities of the US Department of Defense and reporting on the CIA leak case and Iran gained Alexandrovna respect as an investigative journalist.
On March 16, 2007, Valerie Plame Wilson told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, "But I do know the Agency did a damage assessment.
"Alexandrovna also reported that while Plame was undercover, she was involved in an operation identifying and tracking weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran.
The anonymous officials said that in their judgement, the CIA's work on WMDs has been set back "ten years" as a result of that compromise.
[10] Mainstream media initially ignored the story, but on May 1, 2006, the MSNBC correspondent David Shuster reported on the political news show Hardball that MSNBC had learned "new information" about the potential consequences of the leaks: Intelligence sources say Valerie Wilson was part of an operation three years ago tracking the proliferation of nuclear weapons material into Iran.
And the sources allege that when Mrs Wilson's cover was blown, the Administration's ability to track Iran's nuclear ambitions was damaged as well.
[11]On September 6, 2006, David Corn published an article for The Nation, "What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA," in which Corn reported that Plame has been placed in charge of the operations group within the Joint Task Force on Iraq in the spring of 2001 and that "when the Novak column ran" in July 2003: Valerie Wilson was in the process of changing her clandestine status from NOC to official cover, as she prepared for a new job in personnel management.
Its prominence in the Soviet era suggests that it may have been the facility first identified — but never named — when the Washington Post's Dana Priest revealed the existence of the CIA's secret prison network in November 2005.