CIA classmates gather in support of her Friday Hill appearance

WASHINGTON - Former CIA officer Valerie Plame, who was exposed after her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, criticized President Bush's pre-war intelligence on Iraq, will testify Friday before a House committee probing how the White House dealt with her identity.

Plame is expected to tell Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that she was, in fact, a classified undercover agent and that her career at the CIA was destroyed in the summer of 2003 when her name became public in a column written by Robert Novak...[Open in new window]

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Cheney did it. He exposed a working undercover CIA officer. Why?

Petty political payback? Maybe.

She was working on WMD proliferation in the middle east. Maybe he wanted to silence someone who knows he lies when he plays the fear card. And he and the rest play it over and over and over again. Cheating and lying is the Bush administration legacy. It'd be nice to make 'caught doing it' part of the legacy. No?

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