Rep. Wexler Introduces Motion to Censure Bush

Posted by Guest Blogger at 5:23 AM on July 6, 2007.

This post, written by Taylor Marsh, originally appeared on Taylor Marsh.com

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. Bush

Whereas 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); ... ..

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