[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15633-15634]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     KARL ROVE MUST WALK THE PLANK

  (Mr. MENENDEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, now that we know Karl Rove was one of the 
White House officials who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, it is 
time for President Bush to hold his right-hand man accountable and ask 
for Rove's resignation. This is, after all, what members of his own 
administration stated would happen when the President learned the 
identity of those responsible for the leak.
  In September of 2003, White House Press Secretary Scott McClelland 
told reporters, ``If anyone in this administration was involved in it, 
they would no longer be in this administration.''
  Pushed further a reporter asked him if the leaker should be fired. 
And he answered, ``If a source leaked information of this nature, 
yes.''
  Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said, I do not

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believe it would be hard for President Bush to ask the person to walk 
the plank. The fact that Karl Rove remains at the White House speaks 
volumes. It is certainly not the way the White House should operate.
  The White House should not aid and abet those within it in exposing 
CIA agents who work for this country and defend it to danger, and 
therefore it is time for Karl Rove to walk the plank.

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