Tom Harkin: “on a matter of utmost importance to the national security of the United States, I want to point out that it has now been…”

“on a matter of utmost importance to the national security of the United States, I want to point out that it has now been almost a full year since the identity of a covert CIA agent was revealed in print by columnist Robert Novak. In fact, it has been 359 days, 1 week short of a year. Next Wednesday will be 1 year exactly. It has been 10 months, exactly 285 days, since the Washington Post reported that a senior administration official said that two ``senior White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and disclosed the identity of a covert CIA agent.'' We still do not know the identity of those ``senior White House officials'' responsible for this destructive leak. It is simply astounding to me that as I stand here, the person or persons responsible for destroying the 20 years and millions of dollars invested in this agent and for jeopardizing the lives of other agents in the field could at this very moment still be exercising a senior decision making role in this administration.”