[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16270-16271]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                REGARDING AMENDMENT TO INTELLIGENCE BILL

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, yesterday in debate over H.R. 2417, the 
intelligence bill, the chairman of the committee refused to commit to 
an Intelligence Committee audit of all telephone and electronic 
communications between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Vice 
President to determine whether or not the Vice President influenced 
intelligence produced by the CIA on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass 
destruction, the cause of war. First, the chairman said the material 
may be classified and, second, working documents of the executive are 
respected and privileged. Some Members want the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence to have jurisdiction over

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the issue which top committee members clearly do not want to 
investigate. If an executive official pressured or manipulated CIA 
analysts to disseminate false, raw, unreliable information to justify a 
war, that matter should be neither classified nor shielded nor 
privileged. My amendment to the intelligence bill would direct the 
Inspector General of the CIA to audit all electronic communications 
between the Office of the Vice President and CIA to get to the bottom 
of numerous public reports which raise questions as to whether or not 
the Vice President played a role in making false information to become 
the public reason the President went to war in Iraq.

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