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Tim Ryan: We cannot have it, unacceptable behavior, unbecoming of a White House official. Then I am going to wrap this up. I am…

On the recordNovember 4, 2005
We cannot have it, unacceptable behavior, unbecoming of a White House official. Then I am going to wrap this up. I am going to go right through this so we can get everybody involved here. Then not only did Karl Rove and Libby lie to the American people, they lied to Scott McClellan, because he came out 2 months after the indictment and said what everyone already knew, and McClellan says, Those individuals, Rove, Libby, Abrams, assured me they were not involved with this. Another lie. Now we have to change our language a bit to respect the rules of the House and respect the office which we are about to discuss. This is out of the indictment. On or about June 12, 2003, that same summer that we were just talking about, Libby was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA.
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