[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16895]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      BREACH OF NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, our government has the solemn responsibility to 
protect our Nation from terrorism, as today, again, we pray for the 
people of London.
  Our ability to do that was undermined, quite frankly, 2 years ago 
when the identity of one of our CIA agents whose work helps keep 
weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists was exposed.
  This breach of our national security was not really an accident. This 
agent's name was leaked in an act that an unnamed administration 
official described as revenge, political retribution against her 
husband for having dared to point out that the administration had 
knowingly distorted the evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
  It is now clear that President Bush's close adviser, Karl Rove, was 
involved in this breach of our Nation's security, and he should go. If 
the administration wants to have any credibility at all when they say 
that they want to protect the American people, then they should fire 
Karl Rove and anyone else who was involved in compromising our national 
security for petty political gain.

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