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Presidential candidate-in-waiting Hillary Clinton already has backing from top politicians, influential celebrities - and from a famous former spy.

Former CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson, were special guests of honor at a fundraising event Wednesday in Santa Fe, N.M., for the pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC Ready for Hillary. The couple supported Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primary, and they've made their renewed endorsement for 2016 known early.

Since being "outed" as a CIA operative in 2003, Plame and her family relocated to New Mexico. Over the past decade she's written a best-selling memoir, which was adapted into a major Hollywood film, and has made multiple public appearances to speak about issues of nuclear proliferation and women's role in intelligence. She's currently the director of community outreach at the Santa Fe Institute, writing a second spy-thriller featuring a strong female CIA officer - and now, getting ready for Hillary.

Approximately 30 people with wide areas of influence in northern New Mexico, along with some elected officials, attended the breakfast fundraiser Wednesday, which included remarks by the head of the group's financial committee, Craig Smith, and a Q&A with Plame and Wilson.

ABC News spoke with Valerie Plame, 50, this week about her involvement in the growing Super PAC, why she wants Clinton to run for president, and her thoughts on the CIA's most recent policy change.

So, you just got out of your first fundraiser for the group. How'd it go? It was very informative for me personally to learn about how a Super PAC works and how they plan to build on mistakes from the 2008 campaign. I don't think it's any secret that the 2008 campaign was very slow to enact and build a really vibrant grassroots campaign. I mean Obama just ate their breakfast. The disparity was shocking. And they don't want to be caught out again.

Does Hillary Clinton know you're part of Ready for Hillary? I imagine she does. I dare say Hillary Clinton has many, many friends. But she has to know that we're engaged. She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And of course Joe worked in the Clinton White House.

Any secret spy-intel on whether she decides to run or not? I don't have any more insight than anybody else. I really think that she is still weighing the pros and the cons. Like anyone else she's human and probably wakes up one day convinced and then the next day not so sure. But I think it seems pretty obvious that she'll have to wait to make any sort of announcement until after the midterms.

What should her platform be if she does run? Well she's hardly an unknown quantity. She's not going to go off in an unknown direction. And what she's been advocating for, for literally decades at this point, for me personally really resonates.

Any specifics? We have amazing momentum here in New Mexico on zero to five education and Pre-K. And Hillary has been a strong voice, well along with Jeb Bush for that matter, in how important that piece is. Also, as a woman, her rousing call to action at the 1996 Beijing women's conference was prophetic. I'm at the Santa Fe Institute right now. There are lots of nuclear scientists here, and I can tell you it doesn't take one to figure out that women empowerment in terms of education and opportunity around the world make the world a better place.

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There are a lot of Democrats who arent quite ready for Hillary Clinton.

Two stories in Thursdays Journal illustrate hurdles Mrs. Clinton faces within her own party despite the institutional support her presumed candidacy enjoys.

Elizabeth Williamson delivers a Page One profile of former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who is working to position himself as the anti-Clinton. He boasts of annoying President Barack Obama by touting Canadas single-payer health care system to Mr. Obamas face. (Mr. Obamas aide Jim Messina denied that Mr. Obama scolded Mr. Schweitzer.)

Mr. Schweitzer openly mulls his presidential odds.

Could I make a difference? Could I get elected? I suppose yes, he said.

He also borrows liberally from Mr. Obamas 2008 change-Washington mantra one that the president touts when he goes fishing for grassroots support but has otherwise gone dormant.

I think Ive got ideas and drive, Mr. Schweitzer said. But how do you tell the lobbyists and corporations, You dont rule Washington, D.C., when they do? Once the pigs start squealing, nobody can hear.

In another story, Peter Nicholas writes about the liberal interest groups that are getting antsy that the presumed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee remains a blank slate on a range of issues.

Despite overseeing the Keystone XL pipeline approval process while she was secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton has been silent on the issue. She hasnt weighed in on the Obama administrations deportation policy aside from offering vague support for comprehensive immigration reform. And she will face increasing pressure from the Elizabeth Warren wing of the party that wants tougher rules on big banks many of which would make up part of her financial base in a presidential campaign.

All this comes as Mrs. Clinton prepares to go on tour promoting her forthcoming book, Hard Choices. On Tuesday, ABC announced it scored the first interviews with Mrs. Clinton, which are due to air June 9 and 10.

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Hillary Clinton Faces Challenges From Within

Two Spokane County building employees invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination this week in a case that accuses the county of improperly back-dating documents to allow construction of a gas station where a state board ruled it was notallowed.

The county workers testified Monday during an appeal before the county hearing examiner of a building permit application for a convenience store and gas station at Argonne and Bigelow Gulchroads.

Building Director Randy Vissia, one of the two county employees who invoked his Fifth Amendment rights, said he was advised to not answer questions by a county attorney

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Two Spokane County building employees invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination this week in a case that accuses the county of improperly back-dating documents to allow construction of a gas station where a state board ruled it was notallowed.

The county workers testified Monday during an appeal before the county hearing examiner of a building permit application for a convenience store and gas station at Argonne and Bigelow Gulchroads.

Building Director Randy Vissia, one of the two county employees who invoked his Fifth Amendment rights, said he was advised to not answer questions by a county attorney even though, according to Vissia, his employee, Julie Shatto, had done nothing wrong in approving the permit application as completed. Shatto also declined to answer questions at the hearing involving the date that the application was certified ascomplete.

Property owner and developer Stephen Smart, who was at the hearing to defend his project, said the appellant attorneys were acting like attackdogs.

Local residents and neighborhood groups appealed the county decision to let the project proceed, arguing the project was flawed on several grounds, including environmental review and applicationcompleteness.

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OK, just to be clear: Two Spokane County planning officials pleaded the Fifth Amendment you know, the one where you cant be compelled to give criminal evidence against yourself when asked in a public hearing if they had falsified planning documents to boost a new gas station over a legalhurdle.

But they didnt, were told, do anythingwrong.

Spokane Countys unofficial policy of approving developments and then hustling to get them grandfathered in before theyre undone took a turn this week that even the most conspiratorial-minded of critics might not have foreseen. A landowner

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OK, just to be clear: Two Spokane County planning officials pleaded the Fifth Amendment you know, the one where you cant be compelled to give criminal evidence against yourself when asked in a public hearing if they had falsified planning documents to boost a new gas station over a legalhurdle.

But they didnt, were told, do anythingwrong.

Spokane Countys unofficial policy of approving developments and then hustling to get them grandfathered in before theyre undone took a turn this week that even the most conspiratorial-minded of critics might not have foreseen. A landowner wants to build a gas station at Argonne and Bigelow Gulch roads, on land the county added to its growth management boundary last July. Unfortunately, the state invalidated that expansion last November, also invalidating the zoning under which the projects permit wasapproved.

If the application was completed between July and November, it would be considered vested and grandfathered in. The seeming abuse of vesting is the loophole the City Council tried to close in March undermined by Mayor David Condons veto because it essentially allows developers to take a side route around land-use laws with the county commissionshelp.

The latest allegation, if true, would amount to a whole new level of chicanery. The projects first Determination of Completeness was signed Jan. 27 of this year. Too late for vesting. Well after too late. And yet the project was moving forward with the countys blessing. Rick Eichstaedt, the attorney for neighbors challenging the project, inquired about this discrepancy. Within a couple of days, a new permitappeared.

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Shawn Vestal: County permit clerical mishap raises eyebrows - Fri, 23 May 2014 PST

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