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 Adminis-
tration officials discussed with various reporters the iden-
tity 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 re-
vealed 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. Wil-
son’s status as a covert operative was classified informa-
tion and requested a Federal investigation; 
Whereas knowingly leaking the identity of a covert agent is 
a criminal violation of the Intelligence Identities Protec-
tion 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 mili-
tary units’’; 
Whereas Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. 
Lewis ‘‘Scooter’’ Libby, effectively stopped the investiga-
tion 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 in-
quiry; 
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 re-
garding leaking the identity of Ms. Wilson in retaliation 
for her husband’s contention that the Bush Administra-
tion 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 Spe-
cial 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 por-
tion 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 
Resolved, That the United States Congress does here-
by censure George W. Bush, President of the United 
States, and does condemn his decision to commute the 
portion of Mr. Libby’s sentence that required him to spend 
thirty months in prison, his unconscionable abuse of his 
authority with regard to the deceitful chain of events con-
cerning the falsifying of intelligence on Iraqi nuclear capa-
bilities and the exaggeration of the threat posed by Iraq, 
his involvement in the clear political retaliation against 
former Ambassador and Ms. Wilson, and his decision to 
reward the perjury of Mr. Libby, which effectively pro-
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tected President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and other 
Administration officials from further scrutiny. 
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