[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 530 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 530

                       Censuring George W. Bush.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2007

Mr. Wexler (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
 Capuano, Mr. Clay, Mr. Cohen, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Farr, Mr. Hall of New 
 York, Ms. Hooley, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mrs. Maloney of New York, 
 Mr. Michaud, Mr. Welch of Vermont, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Wu, and Mr. Wynn) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                            on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
                       Censuring George W. Bush.

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 the covert identity of Valerie Plame Wilson 
        as a Central Intelligence Agency operative was revealed to members of 
        the media, and in June 2003, Bush Administration officials discussed 
        with various reporters the identity of Ms. Wilson as a covert Central 
        Intelligence Agency operative;
Whereas on July 14, 2003, the name of Ms. Wilson and her status as a Central 
        Intelligence Agency operative was revealed publicly in a newspaper 
        column by Robert Novak, and on September 16, 2003, the Central 
        Intelligence Agency advised the Department of Justice that Ms. Wilson's 
        status as a covert operative was classified information and requested a 
        Federal investigation;
Whereas knowingly leaking the identity of a covert agent is a criminal violation 
        of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200);
Whereas Arthur Brown, former Asian Division chief of the Central Intelligence 
        Agency, stated that, ``cover and tradecraft are the only forms of 
        protection one has and to have that stripped away because of political 
        scheming is the moral equivalent to exposing forward deployed military 
        units'';
Whereas Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis ``Scooter'' 
        Libby, effectively stopped the investigation into this potentially grave 
        national security crime by lying to Federal Bureau of Investigation 
        investigators, and Mr. Libby's perjury shielded Vice President Dick 
        Cheney and President George W. Bush from further inquiry;
Whereas on March 6, 2007, in United States District Court, a jury found Mr. 
        Libby guilty on four counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and 
        making false statements to Federal Bureau of Investigation investigators 
        regarding an investigation into the actions of the White House regarding 
        leaking the identity of Ms. Wilson in retaliation for her husband's 
        contention that the Bush Administration twisted intelligence facts to 
        justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq;
Whereas on June 5, 2007, Mr. Libby was sentenced to 30 months in prison and 
        fined $250,000;
Whereas President George W. Bush had appointed the Special Prosecutor, Patrick 
        Fitzgerald, and nominated Judge Reggie Walton to his position on the 
        U.S. District Court, both of whom were involved in the trial of Mr. 
        Libby;
Whereas in February 2004, President George W. Bush stated that if anyone in his 
        Administration ``has violated [the] law, that person will be taken care 
        of'';
Whereas on July 2, 2007, President Bush commuted the portion of Mr. Libby's 
        sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison; and
Whereas in commuting Mr. Libby's sentence, President Bush has finally and 
        unalterably breached any remaining shred of trust that he had left with 
        the American people and rewarded political loyalty while flouting the 
        rule of law: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That the United States Congress does hereby censure 
George W. Bush, President of the United States, and does condemn his 
decision to commute the portion of Mr. Libby's sentence that required 
him to spend thirty months in prison, his unconscionable abuse of his 
authority with regard to the deceitful chain of events concerning the 
falsifying of intelligence on Iraqi nuclear capabilities and the 
exaggeration of the threat posed by Iraq, his involvement in the clear 
political retaliation against former Ambassador and Ms. Wilson, and his 
decision to reward the perjury of Mr. Libby, which effectively 
protected President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and other 
Administration officials from further scrutiny.
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