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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 637 

Censuring Vice President Richard B. Cheney for failing to respond to requests 

for information concerning allegations that he and others in the Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision 

to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated intelligence information 

regarding the justification for the war, countenanced torture and cruel, 

inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, and permitted 

inappropriate retaliation against critics of the Administration and for 

failing to adequately account for specific misstatements he made regarding the war. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 18, 2005 

Mr. CONYERS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Censuring Vice President Richard B. Cheney for failing to 

respond to requests for information concerning allegations that he and others in the Administration misled 

Congress and the American people regarding the decision 

to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipulated intelligence information regarding the justification for the 

war, countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, and permitted 

inappropriate retaliation against critics of the Administration and for failing to adequately account for specific 

misstatements he made regarding the war. 
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Whereas Vice President Richard B. Cheney has failed to respond to requests for information concerning allegations 

that he and others in the Administration misled Congress 

and the American people regarding the decision to go to 

war in Iraq (including failing to respond to a letter from 

several Members of Congress, dated November 3, 2005, 

requesting that he explain his involvement in the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson as a covert 

Central Intelligence Agency operative), misstated and 

manipulated intelligence information regarding the justification for the war, countenanced torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, and 

permitted inappropriate retaliation against critics of the 

Administration; and 

Whereas Vice President Richard B. Cheney has failed to account for or explain misstatements he made in preparation for the United States military invasion of Iraq, including— 

(1) his December 9, 2001, statement that the report 

that Mohammed Atta had met with the Iraq intelligence 

authorities in Prague in April 2001 had ‘‘been pretty well 

confirmed’’, notwithstanding the fact that the Vice President repeatedly learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency both concluded that the meeting did not take place and the Vice 

President did not then withdraw his statement; 

(2) his August 26, 2002, statement the United 

States had learned that Iraq had resumed efforts to acquire nuclear weapons ‘‘from first hand testimony from 

defectors, including Saddam’s own son-in-law’’, notwithstanding the fact that Saddam’s son-in-law had been 

killed in 1996 and United States officials had been 
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briefed to the effect that the individual had not provided 

such first-hand testimony; and 

(3) his September 8, 2002, statement that we know 

‘‘with absolute certainty, that [Saddam Hussein] is using 

his procurement system to acquire the equipment he 

needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon’’, notwithstanding the fact that the Department of 

Defense, the Department of Energy, and the Department 

of State, as well as other credible intelligence sources, 

had contradicted his statement: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives does 

2 hereby censure Vice President Richard B. Cheney for— 

3 (1) failing to respond to requests for informa4 tion concerning allegations that he and others in the 

5 Administration of President George W. Bush misled 

6 Congress and the American people regarding the de7 cision to go to war in Iraq, misstated and manipu8 lated intelligence information regarding the justifica9 tion for the war, countenanced torture and cruel, in10 human, and degrading treatment of persons in Iraq, 

11 and permitted inappropriate retaliation against crit12 ics of the Administration; and 

13 (2) failing to adequately account for specific 

14 misstatements the Vice President made regarding 

15 the war. 

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