[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17529]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               NO STRAIGHT ANSWERS FROM BUSH WHITE HOUSE

  (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, for 2 years now the Bush White House has 
covered up its involvement in the leaking of a CIA agent's identity. 
Now it appears members of the administration are also misleading a 
grand jury investigating whether or not any laws were broken when Karl 
Rove, Scooter Libby, and possibly others leaked Valerie Plame's 
identity to reporters.
  According to reports over the weekend, Cheney's chief of staff, 
Scooter Libby, told the grand jury that he first heard about Valerie 
Plame's identity from NBC's Tim Russert, but Russert claims that that 
was impossible since he did not even know Plame was a CIA agent.
  In the meantime, Karl Rove told the grand jury that his conversation 
with Time magazine's Matt Cooper was mostly about welfare reform until 
Rove leaked Valerie Plame's identity at the end of the conversation. 
But Cooper says he and Rove never discussed welfare reform. Instead, he 
says, the entire conversation was about Plame.
  Now, despite these alarming discrepancies, Bush continues to support 
both men. Mr. Speaker, our covert CIA agents needs President Bush to 
stand firm against these actions now.

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