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Christine Delargy is a CBS News researcher based in Washington, D.C.

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CBS News confirmed today that President Bush’s former spokesman Scott McClellan will accept an invitation to testify on Capitol Hill next week about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity.

McClellan tells CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante, “I have accepted. I am happy to share what I know.”

House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, D-Mich, asked McClellan to testify after he claimed in his new book: “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” that he was mislead about Scooter Libby’s role in the leak by Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the Bush Administration.

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Mark Knoller is a White House Correspondent for CBS News.

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Think the White House and its defenders are up in arms now about Scott McClellan?

Just imagine the uproar if he’s called to give sworn testimony to Congress about what he knows and heard during his White House years.

A democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee is already calling for McClellan to be summoned to testify under oath about such matters as the firings of those nine U.S. attorneys a couple years ago and the leaking of Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA operative.

But the White House says it could move to stop McClellan from testifying about private presidential deliberations.

“Hypothetically? Yes, I think so,” said White House press secretary Dana Perino at today’s press briefing. “The law would allow for that.”

But she was quick to explain that the White House would not definitely take that action. But it is an option.

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