[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24430]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    NEED FOR INTELLIGENCE ANSWERS IN LIGHT OF LAST WEEK'S INDICTMENT

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve to know if the 
Bush administration hyped faulty intelligence to win approval to go to 
war in Iraq. This Republican-led House refuses to even explore these 
issues. At least the Senate conducted an investigation last year. It 
concluded the intelligence was suspicious and outdated. The second part 
of that investigation was supposed to examine why this faulty 
intelligence was presented to the world as a slam-dunk.
  It has now been exactly 1 year since the investigation was scheduled 
to begin, and the Senate Republicans have refused to move forward. What 
are they afraid of?
  Fed up with Republican stall tactics, the Senate minority leader, 
Harry Reid, moved for the Senate to go into a rare closed-door session 
to demand the investigation proceed. Thanks to Nevada's Senator Harry 
Reid, the Senate Republicans were shamed into restarting this 
investigation. Let us hope it now moves forward so the American people 
can finally determine if the Bush administration knowingly misled this 
country into war.
  Mr. Speaker, the indictment of Scooter Libby shows that the Bush 
administration was willing to go to any length possible to silence its 
critics and cover up the intelligence that contradicted its claims for 
the war in Iraq.

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