[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17528]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           NEED FOR ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE CIA OPERATIVE LEAK

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, as the sordid tale is unfolding about the 
Bush administration's outing of one of our covert intelligence agents, 
as that unfolds, there is an aspect that I just learned about, I wanted 
to share with my colleagues, last week.
  Last week with some Senators, we had a hearing where we listened to 
former CIA agents about the impact of this event on our national 
security system, and these four agents spoke as one. And what they said 
was interesting to me, because what they said was the outing was bad 
enough where they destroyed the covert status of one of our spies, but 
what is almost as bad or worse is that the President has refused to 
take action to deal with whoever is responsible for that wrongful act.
  And to them that was a message that the President just did not honor 
the trust we have to keep the secrecy of our spies secret. That makes 
it more difficult to recruit. We are trying to recruit people for cells 
in London right now. How are we going to recruit them when we out, the 
administration outs, a spy and does not take action to deal with that?
  That is as disturbing as the outing originally. The President needs 
to act. We need to pass House Resolution 363 to get to the bottom of 
this.

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