Valerie Plame is making me feel more patriotic, and just a little bit naughty.

Valerie Plame Wilson, the former CIA officer whose "outing" led to the conviction of a former White House aide, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Friday morning.

Plame testified that, until her cover was blown in a July of 2003 article by conservative columnist Robert Novak, "I was a covert officer for the CIA," and that her "career path was terminated prematurely" by the revelation, because she could no longer perform actions that were necessary for the work that she was trained to do, such as traveling overseas.

Plame said that her "name and identity were carelessly and recklessly abused by senior officials in the White House and State Department."

"Politics and ideology must be stripped from our intelligence services," Plame said, after accusing Bush Administration officials of releasing personal information about her deliberately in order to damage the credibility of her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson. "The harm that is done when a CIA cover is blown is great," Plame added.

Plame-Wilson put to rest every single one of bits of misinformation that the White House and its agents have disseminated about her.

She did not send her husband to Niger!

She was indeed undercover!

Her status was not an open secret in Washington!

All of that is lies. Valerie Plame Wilson testified under oath to that fact.

If the administration has a dissenting opinion then let them make their case under oath as well.

Ain't going to happen!

(and just to earn my immoral credentials I must say that she is a VERY attractive woman!)