Liberal dream girl Valerie Plame was a recent witness in a staged Capitol Hill production put on by Democratic Bush haters.

The sometimes spy acknowledged things that were already known, like the fact that she and hubby Joe Wilson are die-hard Dems.

Interestingly, the former ambassador’s wife was never asked about the central issue of the investigation that claimed “Scooter” Libby for a collateral offense. Plame was not specifically asked whether her status was, in fact, covert, within the meaning of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

Plame predictably claimed that her work was covert despite the fact that she was listed under Wilson’s listing in “Who's Who in America.” Using the phrase “I’m not a lawyer,” Plame described her work status without reference to the statute.

As Bill Gertz reported, Plame’s cover was actually exposed by a Russian spy in the 1990s. The CIA had sent classified documents to the Swiss embassy in Havana where Cubans got a hold of Plame’s name.

Criminal lawyers in D.C. know that if Plame’s job fell within the parameters of the statute, eager-beaver special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald would have made a beeline to indict the guy he knew had revealed Plame as Wilson’s wife, then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

The truth is, there is nothing covert about Plame and Wilson. They have sought publicity and money ever since they became cause celebs of the left.

Keeping themselves overtly in the public eye, they posed for the cover of Vanity Fair, negotiated book deals and a Hollywood production contract, and became multimillionaires.