[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 93 (Tuesday, July 12, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H5643]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         COLLAPSE OF A COVER-UP

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, in the last 48 hours we have witnessed the 
sad collapse of a cover-up. On September 29, 2003, Press Secretary 
Scott McClellan said that he had spoken with the deputy chief of staff 
of the White House and it was simply not true that he had anything to 
do with the disclosure of the identity of a CIA agent. He characterized 
it as ``totally ridiculous.'' And again on October 10, 2003, he said 
the White House had nothing to do with this terrible disclosure.
  The President was then asked on June 10, 2004, whether he would stand 
by the promise to the American people to fire someone responsible for 
this disclosure, and he answered with a simple ``yes.''
  The American people do not want sensitivity training after this sad 
disclosure of a CIA agent. They need full accountability. The jig is 
up. The deputy chief of staff needs to come in front of Congress and 
answer questions about this. And this is not just a matter of a simple 
violation of Federal law. It is a sad violation of democracy to try to 
punish a truth-teller, Joe Wilson, who blew the whistle on the ``yellow 
cake'' false statement made by the President. We know that that is 
wrong because Mr. McClellan said this is not the way the White House 
operates. We beg to differ.

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