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Question: Did Valerie Plame Lie? Answer: Who cares?!?!?

Whether or not Valerie Plame lied in her testimony last Friday is utterly irrelevant. She probably did, and she'll probably get away with it.

Why? Simple, Because the leaders in the Republican Party (if we can call them "leaders"), including the White House, will do nothing to make her pay for her lies, the lies told by her husband, "007" Joe Wilson, and the lies told by the Democrat Party during this entire fiasco.

But this is really nothing new. The Democrats learned a valuable lesson during the Clinton Impeachment, that lesson being that the Republican Party does not have the intestinal fortitude to play hardball with them on any issue. In addition, the Republicans are terrified of the mainstream media's ability to make them look bad to readers of the New York Times.

So Plame, like Clinton, and Sandy Berger, will go free. In fact, she'll probably be anointed a new Hero of the Left for her lies, like Daniel Ellsberg before her. Meanwhile, Scooter Libby will go to jail, Al Gonzales will be forced to resign, and the President will be forced to answer for rats at Walter Reed Hospital.

So I don't care whether Valerie Plame lied. I can't. I simply have no energy left to invest in either this President, or this Party. They have proven repeatedly that they are unworthy of the loyalty of the millions of Americans who sent them to Washington in the first place.

p>The years between 2008 and 2012 are going to be very difficult. br> -- Gavin Valle br> Peapck, New Jersey /p>

Miss Valerie Plame's conflicting testimonies about how her husband was recommended for the Niger work for the CIA raises the question: Is there a policy regarding nepotism at the CIA? If there is, did Miss Plame violate the policy? Was nepotism investigated? If she violated the policy was she punished for any misdeeds? Has an investigator (read congressman), asked the CIA about this?

I find it interesting that Miss Plame denied nepotism in the incident. I don't recall reading the word nepotism in any articles about this topic. She apparently is sensitive to the issue. She should be, she shares in the treasure her husband reaps from his efforts: the pay for the trip, the subsequent payments for op-eds, books, movie rights.

I trust the CIA will be happy to tell us why they did or did not investigate for nepotism. If there was no investigation, why not? Who made that decision? The appearance of impropriety is rampant in this case. Now, the reputation and integrity of the Agency is impugned because the spouse of an employee has political and financial interests misaligned with those of the Agency.

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