[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 23, 2003)]
[House]
[Pages H7335-H7336]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WHEN DO WE GET THE INVESTIGATION

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, the White House is beginning to sound 
more and more line Animal House, in that you have a bunch of 
adolescents over there and they keep running forward saying, I did it, 
I did it.
  First it was Mr. Tenet and now we have Mr. Hadley. When are we going 
to get the truth? When are we going to have an investigation, not in 
secret, done by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, but out 
in the open. They did it in the British Parliament. They were not 
afraid of democracy there. But here we have to have everything secret. 
We need an investigation about who did it.
  Where was Condoleezza Rice? This guy Hadley worked for her. Does she 
make the decisions or does he? I have not heard her stand up and say, 
well, if I had only put my hand up and said no, it would not have 
happened.

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  But what is even more devious about this is if you complain they 
attack. A Senator, a member of the other body, was attacked because he 
pointed out that somebody in the White House had the nerve, the nerve 
to uncover a CIA operative. That is a Federal crime.
  Now, if we do not have an investigation and find out who it is in the 
White House that thinks they can just get on the horn and talk to a 
newspaper reporter and say, hey, did you know so and so was working for 
the CIA? That person should be fired immediately and probably charged. 
But we know they were sent out there to do it by the folks upstairs.
  When we will have another, oh, gee, I did not know, I should not have 
done it?
  When do we get the investigation, Mr. Speaker?

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