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Wednesday, October 01, 2003

White House statement on DOJ investigation of CIA leak
Bernard Hibbitts at 8:44 AM ET

The White House has posted a transcript of President Bush's remarks yesterday following the announcement that the Justice Department is launching a full criminal investigation into allegations that White House officials leaked the name of a CIA operative to journalists:
Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There's leaks at the executive branch; there's leaks in the legislative branch. There's just too many leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

And so I welcome the investigation. I -- I'm absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job. There's a special division of career Justice Department officials who are tasked with doing this kind of work; they have done this kind of work before in Washington this year. I have told our administration, people in my administration to be fully cooperative.

I want to know the truth. If anybody has got any information inside our administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true and get on about the business.
Read the President's complete statement here.



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