[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 149 (Wednesday, October 22, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S12994]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     UNDERCOVER AGENT INVESTIGATION

  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, as I sat here and listened to my friend 
from Iowa once again bring up an issue to which we are all very 
sensitive, I can't help but respond that I have an entirely different 
outlook and opinion about what is going on with respect to this issue. 
Those of us who have been involved in the intelligence community, and 
as a member of the Intelligence Committee, I, too, am somewhat outraged 
that we have the so-called ``leak'' or disclosure of a CIA individual 
that occurred not too long ago. We have a process whereby this is to be 
handled. That process is working the way the process is designed to 
work.
  The White House was outraged about this, and the White House is 
moving very favorably and very aggressively towards resolving this 
issue. They are going to resolve the issue. The Justice Department is 
moving independent of the White House to get to the bottom of this. At 
some point in time a report is going to be made back to the Congress 
and to the American people, and we will find out what did happen.
  Again, there is a process to be followed under law. That process is 
going to allow us to get to the bottom of this in the way it should be. 
We don't need to be here banging political heads against the wall when 
the legal heads are the ones that need to be banged against the wall, 
and that is taking place.

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