Frank Pallone: “one of my Republican colleagues from Texas just said that Karl Rove is his friend and is innocent until proven guilty…”

“one of my Republican colleagues from Texas just said that Karl Rove is his friend and is innocent until proven guilty and that Democrats should not criticize the Bush administration on this issue. Republicans need to realize how serious Rove's actions were. Karl Rove's actions jeopardize the life of every CIA agent, every CIA agent that Valerie Plame ever came into contact with. President Bush's father, a former CIA director, believes it so serious that he said that people who expose CIA agents are the most insidious of traitors. Rather than demand answers from Rove, congressional Republicans are either silent or are attacking Democrats. They should be asking how Rove had the very information about Valerie Plame from the beginning, and they should deny him any further security clearance. For 2 years, the Republicans and the Bush White House have defended Rove, and now we know that everything that they were telling us was simply false. It is time for Bush to remove Rove from the White House. It is time for Republicans to take this seriously and not come up here and talk about their friends and criticize Democrats. ____________________”