[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23784]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS WORK TO UNDERMINE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR'S 
                             INVESTIGATION

  (Mr. FILNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FILNER. Madam Speaker, it is clear that high-ranking officials in 
the Bush White House have not leveled with the American people about 
their involvement in the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity 
to reporters.
  When this investigation first began 2 years ago, Deputy Chief of 
Staff Karl Rove told ABC News that he was not involved in any way. 
After a steady stream of questions, White House press secretary Scott 
McClellan said he personally went and asked Karl Rove and Scooter Libby 
if they were involved, and they both assured him that they were not. 
McClellan told reporters at the White House press briefing on October 
7, ``They are good individuals. They're important members of our White 
House team, and that's why I spoke with them, so I could come back to 
you and say that they were not involved.''
  Well, like much of what the White House says today, that is simply 
not true. Both Rove and Libby were involved in the leaking of a covert 
agent's identity. That means someone in this administration has a lot 
of explaining to do.
  Madam Speaker, this is not the way the American people want their 
government to be run. It is time for someone to be held accountable at 
the White House for this outrageous abuse of power. This administration 
of neo-cons turns out to be an administration of just plain cons.

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