[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15928]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               KARL ROVE

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, one of my Republican colleagues from Texas 
just said that Karl Rove is his friend and is innocent until proven 
guilty and that Democrats should not criticize the Bush administration 
on this issue.
  Republicans need to realize how serious Rove's actions were. Karl 
Rove's actions jeopardize the life of every CIA agent, every CIA agent 
that Valerie Plame ever came into contact with. President Bush's 
father, a former CIA director, believes it so serious that he said that 
people who expose CIA agents are the most insidious of traitors.
  Rather than demand answers from Rove, congressional Republicans are 
either silent or are attacking Democrats. They should be asking how 
Rove had the very information about Valerie Plame from the beginning, 
and they should deny him any further security clearance.
  For 2 years, the Republicans and the Bush White House have defended 
Rove, and now we know that everything that they were telling us was 
simply false. It is time for Bush to remove Rove from the White House. 
It is time for Republicans to take this seriously and not come up here 
and talk about their friends and criticize Democrats.

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