Live Thread - House Oversight and Government Reform Cmte. hearing (Valerie Plame Wilson Testifies)

Cspan ^ | March 16, 2007

[Mo1]

ON CAPITOL HILL Valerie Wilson Testifies

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) chairs a House Oversight and Government Reform Ctme. hearing on the disclosure of CIA Agent Valerie Plame Wilson's identity. The hearing will look into whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding the identity of Ms. Wilson.

FRIDAY, C-SPAN AT 10AM ET

[unsycophant]

Is it usual for covert agents to bring their spouses in to their spy work?

[Howlin]

She has now declared she was covert; it's time for Fitzgerald to charge Richard Armitage!!!

[mewzilla]

Is Wilson gonna testify, anyone know?

[maica]

I love this Congressman from Georgia, Lynn Westmoreland

He is giving the good ol' boy easy drawl impression while asking really sharp questions!!

[A Citizen Reporter]

Plame is a perfect example of what is wrong with the CIA.

Could we possibly have any spies who are MORE STUPID than she is? Good grief!

[Howlin]

His book said she told him!

[Texas_shutterbug]

Who is carrying this live?

[Mo1]

Westmoreland is now asking her about the Vanity Fair pictures and Joe's comments on MTP about not wanting her picture taken

[OXENinFLA]

"The picture came out"

Wasn't it a SET UP SHOT!?!?

[phalynx]

So Plame claims that when she first learned that she was outed was in the newspaper article that her husband placed on the bed. She said her husband said "he did it".

Now, that question, "he did it" would imply, to me, that there was a question about if the "he" would do it or not do it. I would sure like to know what the initial scenerio was. If, "he did it" was the answer, what was the other option. Meaning, it appears that they knew the article could come out.

[racing fan]

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[CFC__VRWC]

So she's trying to say that the CIA routinely makes people covert, but doesn't bother to tell them they're covert? How are they expected to behave covert if they don't know they're supposed to? Will anyone even think to ask this?

And if this is the way the CIA really does operate, then shut it down today, burn the building to the ground and start fresh.

[Howlin]

CSPAN 1.

[mnehring]

I love how he set her up.. he never questioned a spy before.. thank you for your service.. yadda yadda yadda.. plus the way he is asking questions, he knows NLP..

[pitinkie]

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[MinuteGal]

Late riser this morning and just tuned in. Plame looks a little beat up, quite unlike the glamor girl, airbrushed photos in the mags.

She will be played by Britney Spears in the inevitable movie.

Leni

[highlander_UW]

Wilson - "I saw this striking blonde," he recalled, still sounding smitten six years later. At first she said she was an energy analyst, but confided sometime around the first kiss that she was in the C.I.A. "I had a security clearance," grinned Mr. Wilson, then a political adviser to the commander of U.S. forces in Europe.

I had a security clearance as well, but I never knew that I'd gain a "need to know" status by kissing someone.

[Howlin]

Exactly.

[MEG33]

I hope the people on this forum who have been bragging since the elections that they are happy they taught the GOP a lesson are enjoying this dog and pony show.

AMEN!

[linn37]

I was once told by my boss not to assume anything. It makes an ass out of u and and ass out of me.