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“UNDERCOVER AGENT INVESTIGATION” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Senate section on pages S12994 on Oct. 22, 2003.
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UNDERCOVER AGENT INVESTIGATION
Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. President, as I sat here and listened to my friend from Iowa once again bring up an issue to which we are all very sensitive, I can't help but respond that I have an entirely different outlook and opinion about what is going on with respect to this issue. Those of us who have been involved in the intelligence community, and as a member of the Intelligence Committee, I, too, am somewhat outraged that we have the so-called ``leak'' or disclosure of a CIA individual that occurred not too long ago. We have a process whereby this is to be handled. That process is working the way the process is designed to work.
The White House was outraged about this, and the White House is moving very favorably and very aggressively towards resolving this issue. They are going to resolve the issue. The Justice Department is moving independent of the White House to get to the bottom of this. At some point in time a report is going to be made back to the Congress and to the American people, and we will find out what did happen.
Again, there is a process to be followed under law. That process is going to allow us to get to the bottom of this in the way it should be. We don't need to be here banging political heads against the wall when the legal heads are the ones that need to be banged against the wall, and that is taking place.
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