[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17040]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         THE ROVE SCANDAL MOVES TO A STATE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENT

  (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, it has almost been 2 weeks since we first 
learned Karl Rove leaked the identity of Valerie Plame to a reporter at 
Time, and then confirmed the identity for Bob Novak. Yesterday we 
learned that a State Department document including the information 
about Plame's CIA ties also included a giant ``S'' on it, meaning that 
the information was secret.
  For 2 weeks now, some Republicans have said that Rove did nothing 
wrong because the information leaked to the reporters was not 
confidential. Well, now we know that is simply not true and the giant 
``S'' on the State Department document proves it. It is now clear the 
information Rove leaked to the reporters was secret and should not have 
been shared.
  When Rove became Bush's right-hand man, he signed a classified 
information nondisclosure agreement. In that agreement he vowed to keep 
quiet about intelligence information until he could confirm that it was 
not classified.
  Mr. Speaker, at the very least President Bush should revoke Karl 
Rove's security clearance. Rove has clearly shown that he cannot be 
trusted, and yet he continues to have access to information critical to 
our national security. I really think it is time for the President to 
fire Karl Rove.

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