[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 23079-23080]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  WHAT IS PRESIDENT BUSH WAITING FOR?

  (Mr. FILNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FILNER. Madam Speaker, what is President Bush waiting for? It is 
now blatantly clear that the President's main political adviser, Karl 
Rove, and the Vice President's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, leaked a 
CIA agent's identity to the press.
  Madam Speaker, 2 years ago at the beginning of the investigation, the

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President said, ``If there is a leak out of my administration, I want 
to know who it is.''
  Today all the President will say is he will not comment on it until 
the investigation is over. If the President really wanted to know 
exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their 
offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
  There is simply no reason for President Bush to delay any longer. The 
American people and our CIA agents around the world need to be able to 
trust those with top security clearance. Let us not forget that both 
Rove and Libby continue to hold these clearances despite the ongoing 
investigation and all of the evidence pointing to their heavy 
involvement.
  Madam Speaker, it is time for the President to take action. There is 
an ethical cloud hanging over the White House. It is unlikely that 
firing these two men will remove the cloud, but it is certainly a 
beginning. Instead of an administration of neo-cons, we apparently have 
an administration of just plain cons.

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