[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 96 (Thursday, June 26, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H5942]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                REGARDING AMENDMENT TO INTELLIGENCE BILL

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, yesterday in debate over H.R. 2417, the 
intelligence bill, the chairman of the committee refused to commit to 
an Intelligence Committee audit of all telephone and electronic 
communications between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Vice 
President to determine whether or not the Vice President influenced 
intelligence produced by the CIA on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass 
destruction, the cause of war. First, the chairman said the material 
may be classified and, second, working documents of the executive are 
respected and privileged. Some Members want the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence to have jurisdiction over the issue which top 
committee members clearly do not want to investigate. If an executive 
official pressured or manipulated CIA analysts to disseminate false, 
raw, unreliable information to justify a war, that matter should be 
neither classified nor shielded nor privileged. My amendment to the 
intelligence bill would direct the Inspector General of the CIA to 
audit all electronic communications between the Office of the Vice 
President and CIA to get to the bottom of numerous public reports which 
raise questions as to whether or not the Vice President played a role 
in making false information to become the public reason the President 
went to war in Iraq.

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