[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 93 (Tuesday, July 12, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H5645]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TIME FOR KARL ROVE TO STEP ASIDE

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, it appears that either President Bush's 
righthand man Karl Rove was deceiving his boss or the Bush 
administration was deceiving the American people in regards to the leak 
of a CIA agent's identity to the press.
  When asked in September 2003 if he had any knowledge or leaked the 
name of the CIA agent to the press, Rove simply answered, ``no.'' The 
deception continued earlier this month when, on July 4th, Rove simply 
amended his previous statements by saying, ``I'll repeat what I said to 
ABC News when this whole thing broke some number of months ago, I 
didn't know her name, didn't leak her name.'' Last week, after Newsweek 
reported that the leak came from Rove, Rove's attorney shot back and 
said Rove ``did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the 
CIA.''
  Well, now Karl Rove's attorney is admitting that Rove did tell a 
reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. Sounds like a leak 
to me. So, it is now time for President Bush to ask for Karl Rove to 
go.

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