So Valerie Plame is scheduled to testify before Waxman's committee on Friday.  The rumors that I hear are that she will NOT be sworn.  The "purpose" of her testimony is to see if the Democrats can hang Cheney, Rove or someone else with some kind of misdeed.

So Republicans caved in to the combination of Democrats and the media and gave Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald unlimited power to investigate the "crime" involving Wilson and Plame.  Within a week, Fitzgerald knew who had "leaked" Plame's name and knew that there was no crime involved.  According to his press conference announcing the indictment of Scooter Libby, he STILL didn't know whether Plame was an undercover employee of the CIA.  During that press conference, Fitzgerald took pains to say that the indictment was NOT to be interpreted as a condemnation of the Administration nor as an indication that any crime had been committed by the "leaking" of Plame's identity. 

During the years that Fitzgerald "investigated" this non-crime, to my knowledge at least, he did not put Plame/Wilson under oath one single time.  He did so with Libby several times, Rove several times, and so on.   And all of this was AFTER he knew there had been no crime.

So there is one way to try to remedy what has been a completely unfair and one-sided situation:  when Plame appears Friday, PUT HER UNDER OATH.  Then ask her whether her employment was undercover as defined in the law.  Also ask her whose idea it was to send Wilson to Niger and what his initial report back said, and why there was no written report.  And then investigate her answers for truthfulness   If she refuses to answer, make her give a reason and if it's something like National Security, investigate that.

It is ludicrous that this investigation was allowed to continue as long as it did without checking the veracity of the accusers.  Republicans have rolled over and played dead in too many of these situations.  I am sick and tired of taking these beatings and never fighting back.