[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 79 (Thursday, May 21, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H5982-H5983]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATION ABOUT THE CIA

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Madam Speaker, the CIA and our other 
intelligence agencies have protected this country from every attempt at 
a terrorist attack since 9/11.
  And yet the Speaker of this House recently said that the CIA had been 
lying to her and to Congress. According to title 18 of U.S. Code, that 
is a felony. And if the CIA lies to the Congress, there should be a 
penalty. They should go to jail.
  But the Speaker will not allow, and the Democrats will not allow, 
there to be an investigation as to whether or not the Speaker's 
allegations are accurate. And it's very sad because she is impeding and 
impairing the CIA from doing its job.

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  We haven't had a terrorist attack in 7\1/2\ years because of their 
intelligence capability, and because they've done their job. And they 
have been hurt, severely, by the accusations leveled by the Speaker of 
the House, and she is not willing to prove that.
  Today we introduced a resolution to investigate this, and every 
Democrat in the House voted against it. I think it's tragic.
  This country is at war with the terrorists. We need to do everything 
we can to protect our intelligence agencies. And if she said they lied, 
then she has to prove it.

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