Valerie Plame Testimony: Victim or Activist?

Is she a CIA desk jockey or a cloak and dagger operative?  Valerie Plame, the woman that wrote a memo to the deputy chief of the CIA's counterproliferation division suggesting that her husband Joe Wilson go to Niger to debunk a report that Iraq had sought uranium there gets her dance on Capitol Hill today.  She is set to play the victim and pimp her book, her upcoming movie deal and try to get some traction for her lawsuit today.  Many believe that she is nothing more than a political activist that tried to use her husband to move their political agenda forward.

Valerie Plame Testimony: Set to Dance on Capitol Hill

The Washington Post notes that over the past year Plame has completed a book, "Fair Game," which netted her a seven-figure sum, although the book remains tied up in a CIA review process and its publication date is uncertain. She and her husband have sold the movie rights for their life story to Warner Bros. Earlier this week the couple closed the $1.8 million sale of their Washington house, which they purchased in 1998 for $735,000. They have relocated to Santa Fe, N.M., buying a spacious adobe home with a mountain view and a reported $1.1 million mortgage.

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Don't expect any tough questions from the left as Plame and her husband Joe Wilson are like rock stars to many of the members of congress.  If you watch be prepared as the gushing will be nauseating at times.  Here's just a bit of the WaPo fluff piece on Friday: 

"In the years since her outing, the debate over Plame's CIA status has often devolved into hairsplitting feuds over nomenclature and legalisms, arguments awash in partisan bile. Little about her work is publicly known, leaving commentators to speculate on her cloak-and-dagger activities. She has remained opaque, this willowy blonde with the beguiling smile. Into a factual void the public has poured its imagery of the female spy, from Halle Berry and Eva Green in James Bond movies to Jennifer Garner on TV's "Alias."

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This is fairly simple. Valerie Plame sought to enter the political process with her publicity seeking and activist husband Joe Wilson and now is lapping up the spotlight.  The lesson here is simple, if you want to work for the CIA, don't get involved in partisan politics by sending your husband to try and undercut a political position that you disagree with.

Her testimony will be televised.