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Various of Valerie Plame walking to witness table, surrounded by photographers, and takes seat in witness box2. Various of Plame swearing oath3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Valerie Plame, former CIA officer:\"My...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eWashington, DC - 16 March 2007 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of Valerie Plame walking to witness table, surrounded by photographers, and takes seat in witness box\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of Plame swearing oath\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Valerie Plame, former CIA officer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"My name and identity were carelessly and recklessly abused by senior government officials, in both the White House and State Department. All of them understood that I worked for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and having signed oaths to protect national secrets they should have been diligent in protecting me and every CIA officer.\"   \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of hearing\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Valerie Plame, former CIA officer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We in the CIA always know that we might be exposed and threatened by foreign entities. It was a terrible irony that administration officials were the ones that destroyed my cover. Furthermore, testimony in the criminal trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, who has now been convicted of serious crimes, indicates that my exposure arose from purely political motives.\" \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat - New York, Chairman House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"But it is our job to determine what went wrong and insist on accountability and to make recommendations for future to avoid future abuses.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of hearing \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Langley, Virginia - date unknown\u003cbr/\u003e8. Pull back from logo on floor of CIA headquarters\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television - AP Clients Only\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - date and location unknown\u003cbr/\u003e9. Pull back of view of Vanity Fair photograph showing Plame, in disguise, with her husband Joseph Wilson\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 16 March 2007 \u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of hearing room  \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Representative John Yarmuth, Democrat - Kentucky:\u003cbr/\u003e\"How did you react when you learned that your identity had been disclosed?\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Valerie Plame, former CIA agent:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I found out very early in the morning when my husband came in and dropped the newspaper on the bed and said 'he did it'. I quickly turned and read the article and felt like I had been hit in the gut. It was over in an instant and I immediately thought of my family's safety, the agents and the networks I had worked with and everything goes through your mind in an instant.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up chart, compiled from Libby trial testimony, showing leaks involving Plame's name\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Valerie Plame, former CIA agent:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, I am congressman and I am also surprised at how carelessly they used it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Representative Stephen Lynch, Democrat - Massachusetts:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Did you make the decision to send Ambassador Wilson to Niger?\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Valerie Plame, former CIA agent:\u003cbr/\u003e\"No. I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him. There was no nepotism involved. I didn't have the authority.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Pan of hearing \u003cbr/\u003eThe CIA operative at the heart of a Washington political scandal, Valerie Plame, on Friday told the US Congress that senior officials at the White House and State Department \"carelessly and recklessly\" blew her cover to discredit her diplomat-husband.  \u003cbr/\u003ePlame, whose 2003 outing triggered a federal investigation, said she always knew her identity could be discovered by foreign governments.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever she told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, \"it was a terrible irony that administration officials were the ones who destroyed my cover.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe hearing was the first time Plame has publicly answered questions about the case, which led to the recent perjury and obstruction of justice conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide, I. Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby.\u003cbr/\u003eHer appearance was a moment of gripping political theatre as Democrats questioned whether the Bush administration mishandled classified information by leaking her identity to reporters.\u003cbr/\u003eNo one has been charged with leaking her identity.\u003cbr/\u003eCommittee Chairman Henry Waxman, Democrat - California, said at the outset of the hearing, \"it's not our job to determine criminal culpability, but it is out job to determine what went wrong and insist on accountability.\"\u003cbr/\u003ePlame sat alone at a witness table and fielded questions about her CIA career and the disclosure of her name in July 2003 in a story by syndicated columnist Robert Novak.\u003cbr/\u003eNovak has said that former Deputy State Department Secretary Richard Armitage first revealed Plame's job and President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, and CIA spokesman Bill Harlow confirmed it.\u003cbr/\u003eNobody from the White House involved in the leak was scheduled to testify. \u003cbr/\u003eNeither were officials from the State Department, where the first leak of Plame's identity occurred, or the CIA.\u003cbr/\u003ePlame also said she had no role in sending her husband on a CIA fact-finding trip to Niger. \u003cbr/\u003eWilson said in a newspaper column that his trip debunked the administration's pre-war intelligence that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium from Africa.\u003cbr/\u003ePlame said: \"I did not recommend him. 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