[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15633]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           KARL ROVE MUST GO

  (Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, a couple of weeks ago, the 
right wing hit man, who is now the deputy chief of staff in the White 
House made an outrageously, consciously dishonest set of attacks on 
Members of this body by arguing that liberals had show ignored the 
terrible events of September 11, despite the fact that we virtually 
unanimously voted to go to war in Afghanistan, and voted for a homeland 
security department, in fact advocated it over the administration's 
objections.
  We now have learned that the response of this hit man was to leak the 
name of a CIA agent, probably in violation of the law, certainly in 
violation of the rules that ought to be in place. And now we have this 
defense, the lawyer having previously denied that he did it, now says, 
well, it was not really a problem because he only said it was Joe 
Wilson's wife, he did not mention her name.
  Now, perhaps the President's hit man maybe got him confused with one 
of his Saudi prince friends that thought that Mr. Wilson was a 
polygamist and had several wives and therefore identifying his wife 
would have thrown people off the track.
  But I do not think that is really acceptable in a court of law. And 
as to the argument that by not naming her no one knew who he meant, 
does anyone doubt that the right wing hit man I am talking about, whose 
name I have not previously mentioned, is Karl Rove.

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