Kimsch at Musing Minds has transcribed the Valerie Plame statement to the House Committee today.

She mentions by title the Vice President and Scooter Libby by name, but somehow doesn’t mention the one who has admitted to outing her name: Richard Armitage.

Plame would have us believe she was still a covert agent at the time her name was publicly mentioned, when in fact, no one was ever charged with that crime. If she had been covert Armitage would have stood trial for outing a covert CIA agent.

Instead Scooter Libby was convicted of perjury for not remembering who he told about Plame and when.

If Plame’s husband Joe Wilson hadn’t written the article in the New York Times that lied about his mission to Niger none of this would have even been an issue.

I’ll say one thing for Mrs. Wilson: she can certainly pour it on.

I’ve served the United States loyally and to the best of my ability as a Covert Operations Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. I worked on behalf of the National Security of our country, on behalf of the People of the United States until my name and true [emphasis Plame-Wilson] affiliation were exposed in the national media on July 14th 2003 after a leak by administration officials.

Today I can tell this committee even more. In the run up to Iraq, I worked in the Counterproliferation Division of the CIA, still as a covert officer whose affiliation with the CIA was classified. I raced to discover solid intelligence for senior policy makers on Iraq’s presumed Weapons of Mass Destruction programs. While I helped to manage and run secret worldwide operations against his WMD target from CIA headquarters in Washington, I also traveled to foreign countries on secret missions to find vital intelligence.

Valerie, dear, if you were still covert why was no one ever charged with outing you? Instead we get a runaway jury to convict a man simply because he was a member of the Bush Administration.

His memory was no better and no worse than many of the reporters who testified in the case, but the judge wouldn’t allow a memory expert to testify. That was one of the questions asked in the jury room during deliberations.

The judge also wouldn’t allow testimony about what Libby was working on in detail at the time of the trial because Libby exercised his right not to testify.

No, I don’t feel sorry for Plame-Wilson. I feel sorry for Scooter Libby who faces time in jail and a loss of his savings to protect his name, while still having young children living at home.

Justice would be served if he gets a new trial, the verdict is tossed or he gets the same type of punishment President Clinton got when he was found guilty of perjury to a grand jury—a slap on the wrist and a chance to go on the speaking circuit to make some money after having served his country.

Others blogging on the Plame hearing:Conservative Times, Sister Toldjah,and Powerline.

UpdateYou can see Victoria Toensing’s testimony and reference material here. Victoria Toensing was the attorney working for Goldwater when the law making covert agents names public was written. She wrote the law. Very interesting read.

Written by ~J~

2 Responses to “The Plainme Statement”

1. Big Mo says:

   March 17, 2007 at 12:04 am

   I head on Rush how Henry Waxman just could not understand how Toensing could possibly claim that Plame was not covert. In fact, he didn’t care. Waxman is a partisan dolt. Pretty sorry batch of clowns serving in COngress these days.
2. ~J~ says:

   March 17, 2007 at 12:18 am

   Hi, Big Mo!

   Good to see you here! Please come back.