The Valerie Plame affair refers to a political scandal that emerged in 2003 when Valerie Plame, a covert CIA officer, was outed by the media. This occurred after her husband, Joseph Wilson, publicly criticized the Bush administration's justification for the Iraq War, specifically regarding claims about Iraq's nuclear capabilities. The leak of Plame's identity raised concerns about national security and the ethics of political retaliation. In 2007, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice related to the investigation into the leak.