[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 636 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 636

 Censuring President George W. Bush for failing to respond to requests 
   for information concerning allegations that he and others in his 
 Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the 
 decision to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated intelligence 
   information regarding the justification for the war, countenanced 
torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, 
    and permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of his 
    Administration, for failing to adequately account for specific 
misstatements he made regarding the war, and for failing to comply with 
                         Executive Order 12958.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 18, 2005

 Mr. Conyers submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Censuring President George W. Bush for failing to respond to requests 
   for information concerning allegations that he and others in his 
 Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the 
 decision to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated intelligence 
   information regarding the justification for the war, countenanced 
torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, 
    and permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of his 
    Administration, for failing to adequately account for specific 
misstatements he made regarding the war, and for failing to comply with 
                         Executive Order 12958.

Whereas President George W. Bush has failed to respond to requests for 
        information concerning allegations that he and others in his 
        Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the 
        decision to go to war in Iraq (including his failure to respond to a 
        letter signed by 122 Members of Congress on July 12, 2005, asking him 
        whether the assertions set forth in the Downing Street Minutes are 
        accurate), misstated and manipulated intelligence information regarding 
        the justification for the war, countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, 
        and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, and permitted inappropriate 
        retaliation against critics of his Administration;
Whereas President George W. Bush has failed to account for or explain 
        misstatements he made in preparation for the United States military 
        invasion of Iraq, including--

    (1) his October 7, 2002, statement that ``[w]e've learned that Iraq has 
trained al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases'', 
notwithstanding the fact that a February 2002 Defense Intelligence Agency 
document found that the source for the information ``was intentionally 
misleading the debriefers'' in making claims about Iraqi support for al 
Qaeda's work with illicit weapons;

    (2) his January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address assertion that 
``the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought 
significant quantities of uranium from Africa'', notwithstanding the fact 
that the Central Intelligence Agency had repeatedly expressed concerns with 
the basis for such assertions; and

    (3) his January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address assertion that, as 
a result of information provided by defectors from Iraq, ``we know that 
Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs . . . 
designed to produce germ warfare agents, and can be moved from place to a 
place to evade inspectors'', notwithstanding the fact that numerous United 
States and foreign intelligence officials had discredited the information; 
and

Whereas President George W. Bush has failed to comply with his obligations under 
        Executive Order 12958 concerning the protection of classified national 
        security information in that, notwithstanding the fact that several 
        officials within his Administration disseminated classified national 
        security information to the media concerning the status of Valerie Plame 
        Wilson at the Central Intelligence Agency, the President has not 
        disciplined or taken any corrective action against any of these 
        officials, including officials in his Administration that continue to 
        have access to classified information: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives does hereby censure 
President George W. Bush for--
            (1) failing to respond to requests for information 
        concerning allegations that he and others in his 
        Administration--
                    (A) misled Congress and the American people 
                regarding the decision to go to war in Iraq;
                    (B) misstated and manipulated intelligence 
                information regarding the justification for the war;
                    (C) countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, and 
                degrading treatment of persons in Iraq; and
                    (D) permitted inappropriate retaliation against 
                critics of his Administration;
            (2) failing to adequately account for specific 
        misstatements he made regarding the war; and
            (3) failing to comply with Executive Order 12958.
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