The Plame Hearings

[blogslut]

I like the sound of that. The Plame Hearings. Looks like it could be quite the public event:

Valerie Plame to Testify Before Congress

LAURIE KELLMAN | AP | March 8, 2007 09:49 PM EST

WASHINGTON — Valerie Plame, the CIA operative exposed after her husband criticized President Bush's march to war, will testify next week before lawmakers probing how the White House dealt with her identity, the chairman of the panel said Thursday.

Also invited to testify March 16 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is Patrick Fitzgerald, who this week won conviction of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby of obstruction and perjury in the case, said Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif...

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"The trial proceedings raise questions about whether senior White House officials, including the vice president and Senior Adviser to the President Karl Rove, complied with the requirements governing the handling of classified information," Waxman wrote in his invitation to Fitzgerald...

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"The Committee will receive testimony from Ms. Wilson and other experts regarding the disclosure and internal White House security procedures for protecting her identity from disclosure and responding to the leak after it occurred," according to Waxman's statement...

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070308/cia-leak-congress

[solara]

1. The anticipation is delicious k&r