国会记录:2005年7月19日(众议院)白宫暂时泄露H6078-H6079页。根据众议院之前的命令，伊利诺斯州的先生(伊曼纽尔先生)被认出5分钟。伊曼纽尔先生。议长先生，最近有很多关于白宫泄密事件的报道，中情局特工瓦莱丽·威尔逊的泄密被承认是一种令人震惊的行为。但就我个人而言，我希望白宫更多的泄密，而不是更少。我引用总统。把它。让我把话说清楚。我不希望看到更多类似于卡尔·罗夫和斯库特·利比那样的泄密。把为美国国家安全工作的中情局卧底探员暴露出来通常不是一个好主意。 Those are the types of leaks that can lead to unfortunate consequences, like people getting killed and national security being breached. Even if you leak on double super secret background you might get caught. And if there is a special prosecutor involved, well, look out. You could end up, as the old cliche in the book says, the former White House official is doing time in Allenwood. The kind of leaks I am thinking about might include like the real cost of the prescription drug bill for Medicare or the secret plan for Social Security solvency. Those are the types of leaks that I wish this White House would provide and knew. It would have been useful, for example, if someone had leaked the true cost of the Medicare prescription drug program before Congress had voted to commit future generations to twice the obligation we were told. Originally they told us that the prescription drug bill would cost $394 billion over 10 years. The American people are going to pay $800 billion. The administration actually kept secret the extra $400 billion from the Congress and the American people. And they even threatened to fire the government actuary who wanted to just simply tell the truth. All along they knew that it was going to be $800 billion and all along they repeated that it was $394 billion. Now that was the type of leak that is worthy of a good Washington leak. And I think I know something about leaks. And it certainly would have been nice if some brave soul in the White House had told the American people that the President's tax cuts would raid the Social Security Trust Fund for $639 billion, explode the deficit, all the while benefiting the wealthiest Americans. Instead they told us we could have a big tax cut, balance the budget and strengthen Social Security. Of course, former Secretary of Treasury Paul O'Neill eventually blew the whistle on what the real cost of the tax cut was. But by that time it was too late for him and too late for the American people, and Social Security is $639 billion less today in the trust fund, all because nobody wanted to tell the truth when they knew it. But these are not the only examples of not willing to tell the truth to the American people, and wanting to hold back information when they should have done what their instincts were, which was to leak. Remember when we had the terrorist report from the State Department and somebody actually had to doctor the data to say that in fact there was a decline in terrorism when all along they knew there was an increase in terrorism. And Secretary Powell had to come back with a new report, a fresh report to show what the actual data said originally, which was there was a rise in terrorism in the last number of years. Then there was the mercury report from the EPA which was doctored and played with, and they tried to doctor up; as the British like to say, they had to fix the data. Well, they had to go back and fix the data again and come back with the truth. But really who can blame this White House for not leaking? Karl Rove knows that if the American people knew the facts they would not support the policies of this administration. No, this White House is silent about everything it should leak and loose lipped about matters better kept secret. They actually have a bad case of having it all backwards. So next time when you see the truth, my recommendation, try leaking it. [[Page H6079]] And I know the American people and particularly our military families would appreciate a White House leak today on our double secret plan to accomplish a mission in Iraq and bring our boys and girls home. I ask Karl Rove to share that next time with a reporter. Heck, we are still waiting for someone to leak the President's plan on Social Security. So I say do not stop here, Mr. Rove. Do not stop here, Mr. Libby. Dishing the names of our national security agents may be your idea of political, quote, fair game. But turn up that leaky faucet and tell us what we really need to know, which is the truth. ____________________