This is gonna be good. It's taken much too long to get to hearings about her exposure, but at least they are finally happening.

Fabulous!

This country needs a lot of light and a lot of accountability.

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

Let's get the traitors out into the light.

Hopefully between now and then, ABC news might enlighten some of its viewers about the consequences outing Ms. Plame, and therefore her cover org. Brewster-Jennings, has had on our national security --- given that their assignment was tracking WMDs - i.e. nuclear materials --- throughout the Middle East ---- including Iran.

This was not merely revenge against a WhiteHouse critic, this was an act of treason by the Administration, unparalleled in U.S history.

When she's under oath - it wouldn't hurt the Republicans on the committee to ask some sharp questions. For a change.

Aw, c'mon ABC. Give us a few names. We won't tell anybody where we got them.

OK, how about if we guesss one. Will you confirm it?

If I am Scooter Libby I can't wait for Republican members of the committee to question George Tenant, the serial liar Joe Wilson, and his non-covert "covert" wife under oath. I can't wait to hear the answer to such questions as the following;

(1) Why wasn't Wilson's February 2002 trip to Niger made subject to a CIA confidentiality agreement?

(2) Did the CIA contemplate that Wilson would publicly discuss the trip at will upon his return?

(3) Did the agency anticipate that if he did so, it would attract attention to the employment of his wife by the agency?

(4) Why did the Agency select Wilson for the mission to Niger to check out such an important and sensitive matter given his lack of experience in intelligence or investigation and his prior anti-war statements and actions?

(5) Was the Agency aware when it selected him for the mission of his hostility to the Bush administration?

6) How did Wilson know the contents to the "forged Niger Document" since it is and was "claasified" and Wilson should not have seen it?

7) Why did you, Mr. Wilson, Lie about your wife's involvement in your "assignment",

8) Who in the CIA authorized, paid for, and managed this mission?

I could list a hundred more questions if I had the time, but only one question really counts. Was the Valerie Plame / Joe Wilson scam part of larger effort by left-wing elements inside the CIA to destroy the President of the United States?

Mr. Mcfarling,

I urge you to read a different news source. Lies an obfuscation are not the stronghold of the left. On the contrary. Joe Wilson was called a "hero" by GHWBush and was not out to destroy anybody. That kind of rhetoric is typical of the smear campaigns designed to discredit anyone who dares to oppose this White House. That, Sir, is Un-American.

Is the question of whether or not Ms. Plame was outed or not, now moot, since Mr. Fitzgerald found no crime to have been committed other than that of Libby's meeting with the grand jury? If-- no crime was committed how would it be possible for Ms. Plame to have been a covert operative within the CIA. Seems like "much ado about nothing", but again that's Henry Waxman.

The time spent by Congress and the press agonizing over the revelation of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity is a pitiful waste of taxpayers’ money and airtime. Why has no one asked the REASON & MOTIVE certain government officials may have compromised her cover?

To get back at her husband’s (Joseph C. Wilson IV) criticism of the Administration’s Iraq war decision is in no way a plausible reason. In what context did they name her? Did they ASK the press to publicize her name? If Robert Novak received such information, why did he feel obliged to publish it in his response to Wilson on 7/14/2003? His motive clearly was to discredit Joseph Wilson, but Novak does not work for the Administration. Does Novak have no respect for national security? Has he forgotten the old axiom “loose lips sink ships”?

I think he should be taken to task and prosecuted for making public such information. However, the press is never wrong and rarely culpable! In many instances, it is the press who have put our fighting men & women in danger in Iraq and Afghanistan, by publishing sensitive information, useful to the enemy. FDR was right to gag the press during WWII in many respects. If GW were more popular, he could and should do likewise. Freedom of the press is a precious right, but it does not mean that we should harm innocent people in the process of exercising this right, especially during wartime.

Lewis Clark

3/18/2007