UPDATED: Plame Testifies Before Congress... Confirms She Was 'Covert' -- Calls Outing a 'Travesty"

[babylonsister]

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UPDATED: Plame Testifies Before Congress Today: She Confirms She Was 'Covert' -- Calls Outing a 'Travesty'

By Greg Mitchell

Published: March 16, 2007 10:45 AM ET updated 11:25 AM

WASHINGTON Valerie Plame told a congressional committee today that she indeed did work in a "covert" status at the CIA, and referred to the "travesty" of the disclosure of that by administration officials and the media.

"I know I am here under oath, and I am here to say that I was covert," she said, disputing claims to the contrary.

She said she was "shocked" by some of the revelations in the recent Libby trial. She also denied recommending that her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, be sent to Niger in the 2002 mission. After noting that she was happy to say this under oath, she called the allegation "incorrect" and "doesn't square with the facts."

Plame said a CIA colleague had mentioned that Wilson was qualified to do this assignment. She said she was "ambivalent" about that, as she was concerned about looking after the couple's two-year-old twins at the time. But asked to pass this request on, she did.

She said an email she sent was "taken out of context" by Republicans in Congress and made to seem as if she had recommended him. A colleague who was cited as the source for this told her, with tears in his eyes, she said, that his words had been "twisted" and wrote a memo to this effect.

Rep. Henry Waxman, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, kicked it off, by revealing what the CIA had cleared for him to state. Despite long claims by conservatives, she was indeed a "covert" agent, the CIA said, and "undercover," despite not being abroad at the time of her outing.

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[Old and In the Way]

1. Just checked RedState to see what they have to say about this.

{chirp}

On the FR Front Page:

{chirp}...but they do have a live thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801823/posts

750 responses so far

One of the 1st posts which should be the expected talking point of the day.

To: Mo1
Countdown until she perjures herself.
5.4.3.2.1....
3 posted on 03/16/2007 6:03:01 AM PDT by mnehrling (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Seperabit)
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A little into it as Valerie's now under oath, the 1st head explodes-

To: mewzilla

she has now testified that she was covert until the time of her 'outing'.

if that's true, then why was no one charged?

131 posted on 03/16/2007 7:36:10 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (DUNCAN HUNTER '08.....lframerica.com.....MARCH TO TAKE BACK AMERICA)
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Kimberly, Kimberly...now do you know why Scooter obstructed justice?

:rofl:

And another, for the irony impaired-

To: Kimberly GG

Plame is laying the groundwork for a future law suit against the "leakers" who destroyed her career. The fact that she mentioned the Libby conviction is gratuitous nonsense. Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, not leaking her name.

141 posted on 03/16/2007 7:38:24 AM PDT by kabar
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The first poster to go wobbly....Txsleuth best -

To: Mo1

She must have gotten word from the CIA that they would back up her lies today...otherwise, how can she totally lie about everything like this???

The only other explanation is that EVERYTHING that we have read by Feldman and Toensing have been LIES.

148 posted on 03/16/2007 7:39:17 AM PDT by Txsleuth (I don't know who I am voting for yet...just window shopping.)
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[babylonsister]

3. Grasping at straws, are they?

:D

[Klukie]

2. Thank god Waxman is having this hearing

Facts are always a good thing.