Did Valerie Plame Lie?
politics, Democrats, scandal, lies, criminal
March 19, 2007, by John Tabin
If Joseph Wilson's wife hadn't worked for the CIA, he would not have been sent on the fact-finding mission to Niger that has caused so much controversy over the past few years. This fact is indisputable. Yet last week, Valerie Plame Wilson, under oath before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, did her best to dispute it, or at least to muddy the waters. The question now is whether she committed a crime in doing so.
Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, a Democrat who is clearly sympathetic to the Wilsons' beef with the White House, teed her up to downplay the connection between her job and her husband's trip: