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Plame to testify in House Hearing on White House's involvement in CIA leak scandal


Plame will testify in a House hearing on the White House's handling of her disclosure.

WASHINGTON (CNN) --Former CIA agent Valerie Plame has agreed to testify in a House hearing on the White House's handling of her disclosure, two days after a guilty verdict was reached in the CIA leak trial involving former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-California, announced he would hold the hearings on March 16 that aim to investigate the "internal White House security procedures for protecting her identity from disclosure and responding to the leak after it occurred," according to a statement released Thursday.

Waxman has also asked the Special Prosecutor of the CIA Leak investigation, Patrick Fitzgerald, to appear before the committee.

"The trial proceedings raise questions about whether senior White House officials, including the Vice President and Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove, complied with the requirements governing the handling of classified information," Waxman wrote to Fitzgerald in a letter dated Thursday. "They also raise questions about whether the White House took appropriate remedial action following the leak and whether the existing requirements are sufficient to protect against future leaks."

-- CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

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