国会记录：2003年10月22日（参议院）Page S12993-S12994智商泄露哈尔宾先生。主席先生，超过83天过去了，自中央情报局于7月份向联邦调查局提出了报告和询问，关于卧底中央情报局代理人的高级管理人员官员泄露。这项调查最初是通过脚踏拖延和延迟而失去的，并且继续被拖累和延迟失效。司法部至少花了至少53天，正式发布调查。在这一点之后需要4天，正式正式通知白宫关于调查并告诉他们保留任何与其相关的材料。最近，调查是由总统和律师将事件发生利益冲突的“不问”的态度而被推移。律师Ashcroft是一位布什政府的好朋友及其高级顾问，这是一个非常党派共和党的生活中的大部分生命，仍在监督调查。事实上，他的一个最高助手昨天表示，阿什克罗夫特经常向调查中的关键细节介绍，包括由FBI质疑的人的身份。谈谈寒冷的效果。布什总统开玩笑并揭示了它。 I would like to bring to the attention of Senators an article by Knight Ridder, published in the newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Sunday. The headline was ``CIA Leak May Have Caused More Damage. Work of Others Using Front Company Name May Be at Risk.'' This revealed why this leak is no laughing matter; it is a deadly serious matter of national security. This is what the article said: Training agents . . . costs millions of dollars and requires the time-consuming establishment of elaborate fictions, called ``legends,'' including in this case the creation of a CIA front company that helped lend plausibility to her trips overseas. . . . Compounding the damage, the front company, Brewster-Jennings & Associates . . . apparently was also used by other CIA officers whose works could now be at risk, according to Vince Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counterterrorism operations and analysis. . . . Now, [Valerie] Plame's career as a covert operations officer in the CIA's Directorate of Operations is over. Those she dealt with--on business or not--may be in danger . . . and Plame's exposure may make it harder for American spies to persuade foreigners to share important secrets with them, U.S. intelligence officials said. Other former CIA officials agree--including Larry Johnson, a former classmate of Plame's and former CIA and State Department official. He predicted that when the internal damage assessment is finished: . . . at the end of the day, the [harm] will be huge and some people potentially may have lost their lives. Another former CIA officer, Jim Marcinkowski said: This is not just another leak. This is a unprecedented exposing of an agent's identity. So, again, this is no laughing matter. The President should not treat it as such. Here are some quotes from some in his own administration. Attorney General Ashcroft said: Leaks of classified information do substantial damage to the security interests of the nation. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld earlier this year, March--February of this year: I think leaks are disgraceful, they are unprofessional, they are dangerous. They put people's lives at risk. Ari Fleischer, White House spokesman, in June: The President does have very deep concerns about anything that would be inappropriately leaked that could in any way endanger America's ability to gather intelligence information. From his own administration, people say how bad it is to have these kinds of leaks to endanger national security. Let me give a quick recap of the timeline. It started with the President's deception in his State of the Union Address in January. In his remarks, Mr. Bush stated Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger. A few months later, in July, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's op-ed appears in the New York Times, questioning the President's assertion. Then in order to discredit Wilson and ``seek revenge'' on Wilson, senior administration officials leaked to the press the identity of Wilson's wife and the fact she was a CIA operative, thereby undercutting our national security and clearly violating Federal law. This happened in early July. Let's see what happened since. On July 24, Senator Schumer calls on the FBI Director to open a criminal investigation into the leak of a CIA operative based on that column. In late July, the FBI notified Senator Schumer that they had done an inquiry into the CIA. Then it appears nothing happened for 2 months. On September 23, the Attorney General says he and CIA Director Tenet sent a memo to the FBI requesting an investigation. On September 26, the Department of Justice officially launches its investigation. Interestingly, it took 4 days after that ``official'' launch for the Justice Department to call White House Counsel Gonzales and notify him of the official investigation. Gonzalez then asked for an extra day before the Justice Department gave the White House the official notice, which means all documents and records must be preserved. A recent letter was sent to the President from Senators Daschle, Schumer, Levin, and Biden which also expresses concern about this break from regular procedure. They wrote: Every former prosecutor with whom we have spoken has said that the first step in such an investigation would be to ensure all potentially relevant evidence is preserved, yet the Justice Department waited four days before making a formal request for documents. Interestingly, the letter goes on: When the Justice Department finally asked the White House to order employees to preserve documents, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales asked for permission to delay transmitting the order to preserve evidence until morning. The request for a delay was granted. Again, every former prosecutor with whom we have spoken has said that such a delay is a significant departure from standard practice. That is what has been happening--departure from standard practice. I am also troubled that the White House Counsel's Office is serving as [[Page S12994]] ``gatekeeper'' for all the documents the Justice Department has requested from the White House. Mr. Gonzales' office said he would not rule out seeking to withhold documents under a claim of executive privilege or national security. What kind of a zoo is this outfit? Mr. Gonzales says he can withhold these documents from this investigation on the basis of national security. Wait a minute. It is our national security that has been breached by this leak. Now we are going to have an invocation of protecting national security to protect who leaked it, I guess. I believe this matter could have been resolved very quickly. President Bush could have called his senior staff members into the Oval Office and asked them one by one if they were involved. He could have them sign a document stating they were not involved in this leak. He could have each of them sign a release to any reporter to release anything they have ever said to a reporter thereby exempting the reporters. There has been coverup after coverup after coverup on this CIA leak, and it is not going to go away. People of America will demand that we get to the bottom of it. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Georgia. ____________________ Congressional Record: October 22, 2003 (Senate) Page S12994 UNDERCOVER AGENT INVESTIGATION Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, as I sat here and listened to my friend from Iowa once again bring up an issue to which we are all very sensitive, I can't help but respond that I have an entirely different outlook and opinion about what is going on with respect to this issue. Those of us who have been involved in the intelligence community, and as a member of the Intelligence Committee, I, too, am somewhat outraged that we have the so-called ``leak'' or disclosure of a CIA individual that occurred not too long ago. We have a process whereby this is to be handled. That process is working the way the process is designed to work. The White House was outraged about this, and the White House is moving very favorably and very aggressively towards resolving this issue. They are going to resolve the issue. The Justice Department is moving independent of the White House to get to the bottom of this. At some point in time a report is going to be made back to the Congress and to the American people, and we will find out what did happen. Again, there is a process to be followed under law. That process is going to allow us to get to the bottom of this in the way it should be. We don't need to be here banging political heads against the wall when the legal heads are the ones that need to be banged against the wall, and that is taking place. ____________________