This ought to be good.

“Rep. Henry A. Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, might ask White House officials to testify about their actions involving the CIA leak case, Democratic sources tell Politico.

President Bush has resisted past calls for appearances by his advisers, so the request could provoke another showdown between the White House and the new Democratic Congress.

Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative at the center of the case that led to last week’s conviction of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, will be the star witness when Waxman holds a hearing Friday into “whether White House officials followed appropriate procedures for safeguarding” her identity.

Congressional sources say Republicans have made a tentative request to call Victoria Toensing, an outspoken lawyer who was instrumental in writing the law protecting the identities of intelligence agents. She contends that no crime was committed in the outing of Plame.

Waxman is also seeking a sit-down with special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who has not yet responded, according to committee sources. “

Heh…….Waxman, can it get any better? You bet!

“Friday‚Äôs hearing with Plame will be carried live on the committee‚Äôs Website, www.oversight.house.gov. And depending on what the Central Intelligence Agency clears her to say, Plame may rebut assertions by some conservatives that she had a lower level of covert status.

She is expected to contend she had no direct role in sending her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, on a mission to Niger. And Democrats are likely to try to tease out the consequences of her exposure and inquire about the potential impact of exposure on others who are undercover.

Toensing, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration and frequent legal analyst on television, helped write the law protecting intelligence agents when she was chief counsel for Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, from 1981 to 1984.

If Republicans formalize their request for her testimony, Waxman will decide whether it would be relevant, the Democratic sources said. In a piece in The Washington Post’s Outlook section on Feb. 18, Toensing wrote that Fitzgerald had ignored “the fact that there was no basis for a criminal investigation from the day he was appointed” and that the CIA only objected to the leak of Plame’s identity “to cover its derriere.”

Wanna bet that Waxman gives Plame the stage to continue writing her (and the media’s) version of her involvement in the game that she and her cohorts cooked up?

I want her to go there with the “I didn’t send my husband” lie, er, I suppose that would be perjury. Yeah Plame, do go there!

The SSCI report as well as the Libby trial itself showed what the facts are there to show that she did suggest her husband not once but twice. So go ahead and try to tell us that everybody but you is lying.

Traitor.

Wanna also bet that Waxman determines that Toesing’s valid and indisputable testimony will not be relevant?