Wexler to Introduce Censure Motion
05 July 2007 2:52 pm by Taylor Marsh
Huffington
Post has the teaser, so I went looking for the rest of the story and the
text of the censure motion Rep. Wexler intends to introduce in the House next
Tuesday. It is below.
Resolution
relating to the censure of George W. BushWhereas President George W. Bush has failed to comply with his obligations
under Executive Order 12958 concerning the protection of classified national
security information in that the covert identity of Valerie Plame Wilson as
a Central Intelligence Agency operative was revealed to members of the media,
and in June 2003 Bush Administration officials discussed with various reporters
the identity of Ms. Wilson as a covert Central Intelligence Agency operative;Whereas on July 14, 2003, the name of Ms. Wilson and her status as a CIA
operative was revealed publicly in a newspaper column by Robert Novak, and
on September 16, 2003 the Central Intelligence Agency advised the Department
of Justice that Ms. Wilson’s status as a covert operative was classified
information and requested a federal investigation;Whereas knowingly leaking the identity of a covert agent is a criminal violation
of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (P.L. 97-200); … ..
