[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15927]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               KARL ROVE

  (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, we need to ask, why did Karl Rove, the 
President's Deputy Chief of Staff, reveal the identity of a CIA agent? 
The Republican National Committee has issued furiously spun talking 
points that suggest that Karl Rove was merely trying to keep an 
inaccurate story out of the paper. That is absolutely preposterous. 
Should the government start giving out secret information to reporters 
as background information? Of course not. No, the real reason Karl Rove 
outed a CIA agent was because the administration did not like the 
story. They did not like that they were being caught perpetuating a 
false story about nuclear materials from Niger in order to justify 
their run-up to war, so they tried to change the subject.
  Karl Rove only knows one way to change the subject, attack the 
messenger. Normally these are just despicable political dirty tricks, 
but in this case it was a threat to national security by deliberately 
outing a CIA agent. Karl Rove has demonstrated that he is not beyond 
using classified information to further his political agenda, and it is 
time for him to be stripped of his security clearance and shown the 
door.

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