[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 12, 1994]
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   NO INTENT FOUND TO DECEIVE CONGRESS ON VIRGINIA FACILITY FOR THE 
                         INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

  (Mr. GLICKMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GLICKMAN. Mr. Speaker, as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, 
I have been critical at times of the intelligence community's 
organization and management, but I come to the floor today to defend 
them on an allegation that was made by the Intelligence Committee of 
the other body regarding a building built by the National 
Reconnaissance Office in Virginia.
  The allegation was made or inferred that in some way the intelligence 
community deceived Congress by never notifying us of this building. 
Yesterday we had a public hearing of the House Intelligence Committee 
in the Rayburn Building, and the fact of the matter is that while we 
may disagree with some of the procedures used by the National 
Reconnaissance Office, there was no intent to deceive Congress, and 
there was no intent to hide the facts or deceive the intelligence 
community or Congress with respect to that particular building.
  This was a building that was designed several years ago, frankly, at 
the request of some Members of Congress and the intelligence community 
to consolidate the offices of the National Reconnaissance Office, 
which, up until 2 years ago, was actually a classified body. But the 
purpose of the consolidation was to close or consolidate many, many 
leased offices around the country that were costing the taxpayers a lot 
of money.
  While we are going to look at the procedures used in the building and 
the contracting process and although we think the budgeting needs to be 
improved, I want to assure my colleagues that there was no intent to 
deceive Members of Congress in connection with that facility.

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