[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17756]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WIDENS INVESTIGATION INTO CIA AGENT IDENTITY SCANDAL

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, for 2 years now, the White House has 
engaged in a cover-up of who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA 
agent. Two years ago, President Bush said he wanted to know who had 
leaked Valerie Plame's identity to reporters, and he said whoever it 
was would be fired.
  Today we learned the special prosecutor has widened his investigation 
to see if any laws were broken when the White House tried to discredit 
allegations that President Bush used faulty intelligence to justify the 
Iraq war.
  Now, this entire investigation centers around national security. 
White House officials jeopardized our national security when they outed 
a CIA agent's name. They also jeopardized our national security when 
they tried to discredit anyone who did not support their faulty 
intelligence that took us to war in Iraq.
  Mr. Speaker, this investigation should never have been needed in the 
first place. If the President's words had meant something, this would 
have been completed a long time ago.

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