USA Today says Senator Kit Bond, (R-MO), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants Valerie Plame to explain why she can't get her story straight on the circumstances surrounding Joe Wilson's trip to Niger prior to the Iraq invasion.
Here are Plame's three versions of how Wilson was sent to Niger, according to Bond:
•She told the CIA's inspector general in 2003 or 2004 that she had suggested Wilson.
•Plame told Senate Intelligence Committee staffers in 2004 that she couldn't remember whether she had suggested Wilson.
•She told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March that an unidentified person in Vice President Cheney's office asked a CIA colleague about the African uranium report in February 2002. A third officer, overhearing Plame and the colleague discussing this, suggested, "Well, why don't we send Joe?" Plame told the committee.
Wilson/Plame had their hearts set on undermining the Bush administration from the beginning. The exposure of her connection to the CIA was never a crime, since she was not a covert agent (as numerous sources have testified her CIA employment was common knowledge around D.C.), and this whole thing was nothing but an excuse to undermine President Bush and the Iraq War.
The fact that Plame can't keep her story straight is further evidence of that.
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