On the recordOctober 1, 2003
I ask the Senator from Iowa, does it not show the depths which have been reached if someone in the White House is prepared to not only discredit but to disclose the identity of an intelligence agent, perhaps compromising their professional career, maybe endangering their life, in order to settle a political debt? I ask the Senator from Iowa, who has a memory of this--as I do, as well--this is an echo of an enemies list of Richard Nixon's era where they have decided at any cost they will go after their enemies, even in the commission of a Federal felony, to disclose the identity of Ambassador Wilson's wife. The Senator from Iowa is correct. It is true that the lengths to which this administration is willing to go to silence its critics harken back to an era that was one of the darkest eras in Presidential politics.
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