Should be fun

It's not like this is breaking news but:

She has been silent nearly four years. Today, the CIA officer whose unmasking fueled a political uproar and criminal probe that reached into the White House is poised to finally tell her own story -- before Congress....

...People close to Plame say her primary goal in testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is to knock down persistent claims that she did not serve undercover. "She is so tired of hearing that," her mother, Diane Plame, said in an interview earlier this week...

...Former CIA officers, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject, provided a broad outline of Plame's career. They said she spent most of her time as one of the elite spies who travel overseas under "non-official cover" and are known as NOCs within the agency. Most CIA case officers living or traveling overseas have "official cover" by working at U.S. embassies as State Department or other government agency officials -- and thus have the protection of diplomatic immunity and the chance for rescue by the U.S. government.

But NOCs, posing as businesspeople, scientists or others, rely on a carefully crafted false identity. If detected or arrested by a foreign government, they're on their own...

...No one would describe details of her overseas activities, which remain classified, or her last job within the CPD -- other than to say that her work included dealing with personnel as well as issues related to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Iran.

Novak's initial column sparked anger inside the CIA, according to one of her superiors at the time. "She was still undercover and there was concern that political people were being very cavalier with a serious issue," this former senior clandestine officer said. "It was not just a legal, statutory thing; it was that politicians for their own purposes could throw out all aspects of cover" to punish her husband.

This, of course, requires a great amount of bravery.

Something another speaker, Victoria Toensing, who along with her husband Joseph DeGenova operates in the Washington Law Firm of "Badanov & Fatale". Toensing at full-throat for nearly two years has been spewing one talking point after another and been given a free pass by the Fred Hiatt's of the District. We may find out whether she likes her crow sauteed or more likely just raw, removing the head hersel.