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The exposure of Plame as an active covert [[CIA]] agent led to the appointment by President Bush of Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the matter, and eventually to the conviction of [[I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr.]], former Chief of Staff to Vice President of the United States, [[Richard Cheney]], for perjury to a grand jury, making false statements to federal investigators, and obstruction of justice.
 
The exposure of Plame as an active covert [[CIA]] agent led to the appointment by President Bush of Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the matter, and eventually to the conviction of [[I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr.]], former Chief of Staff to Vice President of the United States, [[Richard Cheney]], for perjury to a grand jury, making false statements to federal investigators, and obstruction of justice.
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In May 2007, Senator Kit Bond, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Plame to explain differences in the various accounts Plame gave to investigators in the Plame Affair.
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*Plame told the CIA's inspector general in 2003 or 2004 that she had suggested Wilson.
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*Plame told Senate Intelligence Committee staffers in 2004 that she couldn't remember whether she had suggested Wilson.
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*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. <ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-29-plame-testimony_N.htm Plame called on to explain varied accounts], By Richard Willing, ''USA TODAY'', May 29, 2007.</ref>
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==References==
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