The House Judiciary Committee will bring the week to a close with Scott McClellan testifying this Friday about the Valerie Plame saga. In the former press secretary’s new book, What Happened, McClellan says the White House lied about blowing the covert CIA agent’s cover. McClellan also writes that the Bush administration selectively released portions of a classified intelligence document trying to bolster the case for the Iraq War.

The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez reduces the hearing’s impact to whether renewed leak scrutiny by Congressional Democrats will decrease the chance of Scooter Libby getting a pardon. But since the world still doesn’t know who was responsible for orchestrating the leak, a case can be made that much more is at stake. -MB

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