[Mb-civic] Senate Does Battle Over Rove's Role in Plame Leak - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Senate Does Battle Over Rove's Role in Plame Leak
Dueling Republican, Democratic Amendments Fail

By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 15, 2005; Page A04

In bitingly partisan exchanges yesterday, lawmakers plunged into the 
dispute over Karl Rove's hand in leaking a covert CIA operative's 
identity, as the Senate rejected a bid to strip the White House aide of 
his security clearance.

A day of dueling news conferences ended with a Senate debate that turned 
unusually personal. It began when Democratic leaders proposed an 
amendment, aimed at Rove, to deny access to classified information to 
any federal employee who discloses a covert CIA agent's identity.

Republican leaders retaliated with a measure designed to strip the 
security clearances of the chamber's top two Democrats. Even as he urged 
support for his amendment, Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) 
acknowledged the blatantly political tone of the debate. "This is a sad 
and a disappointing afternoon here in the United States Senate," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/14/AR2005071401962.html?nav=hcmodule

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