[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17758]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PRESIDENT PUTTING POLITICS ABOVE NATIONAL SECURITY

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, 2 years ago, President Bush told the 
American people, if there were a leak out of my administration, I would 
want to know who it is. That was 2 years ago. It clearly was not a top 
priority, because if the President really wanted an answer to that 
question, he would have it by now.
  When someone in the White House leaked Plame's identity, they 
compromised hundreds of intelligence investigations that are now taking 
place around the world; this at a time when our intelligence-gathering 
plays a critical component to our national security.
  The outing of a CIA agent should be a concern to us all. The 
President's own father realized the serious implications of outing 
covert agents. He went as far as to call them almost actions that are 
treasonous. Now his son refuses to find out who leaked Valerie Plame's 
name.
  President Bush can continue to state that he wants to wait for the 
grand jury to finish its investigation; but if this was indeed a top 
priority for the President, he would have an answer by now.

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