IV 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 530 

Censuring George W. Bush. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 10, 2007 

Mr. WEXLER (for himself, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, 

Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. CLAY, Mr. COHEN, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. FARR, Mr. 

HALL of New York, Ms. HOOLEY, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mrs. 

MALONEY of New York, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. WELCH of Vermont, Ms. 

WOOLSEY, Mr. WU, and Mr. WYNN) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Censuring 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 Central Intelligence Agency operative was revealed publicly in a newspaper column by Robert Novak, 


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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 (Public Law 97–200); 

Whereas Arthur Brown, former Asian Division chief of the 

Central Intelligence Agency, stated that, ‘‘cover and 

tradecraft are the only forms of protection one has and 

to have that stripped away because of political scheming 

is the moral equivalent to exposing forward deployed military units’’; 

Whereas Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. 

Lewis ‘‘Scooter’’ Libby, effectively stopped the investigation into this potentially grave national security crime by 

lying to Federal Bureau of Investigation investigators, 

and Mr. Libby’s perjury shielded Vice President Dick 

Cheney and President George W. Bush from further inquiry; 

Whereas on March 6, 2007, in United States District Court, 

a jury found Mr. Libby guilty on four counts of perjury, 

obstruction of justice and making false statements to 

Federal Bureau of Investigation investigators regarding 

an investigation into the actions of the White House regarding leaking the identity of Ms. Wilson in retaliation 

for her husband’s contention that the Bush Administration twisted intelligence facts to justify the 2003 invasion 

of Iraq; 

Whereas on June 5, 2007, Mr. Libby was sentenced to 30 

months in prison and fined $250,000; 


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Whereas President George W. Bush had appointed the Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, and nominated Judge 

Reggie Walton to his position on the U.S. District Court, 

both of whom were involved in the trial of Mr. Libby; 

Whereas in February 2004, President George W. Bush stated 

that if anyone in his Administration ‘‘has violated [the] 

law, that person will be taken care of’’; 

Whereas on July 2, 2007, President Bush commuted the portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend 

thirty months in prison; and 

Whereas in commuting Mr. Libby’s sentence, President Bush 

has finally and unalterably breached any remaining shred 

of trust that he had left with the American people and 

rewarded political loyalty while flouting the rule of law: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the United States Congress does here2 by censure George W. Bush, President of the United 

3 States, and does condemn his decision to commute the 

4 portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend 

5 thirty months in prison, his unconscionable abuse of his 

6 authority with regard to the deceitful chain of events con7 cerning the falsifying of intelligence on Iraqi nuclear capa8 bilities and the exaggeration of the threat posed by Iraq, 

9 his involvement in the clear political retaliation against 

10 former Ambassador and Ms. Wilson, and his decision to 

11 reward the perjury of Mr. Libby, which effectively proVerDate Aug 31 2005 23:14 Jul 12, 2007 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HR530.IH HR530

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1 tected President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and other 

2 Administration officials from further scrutiny. 

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