[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 117 (Thursday, August 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 18, 1994]
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EVIDENCE OF PARTISAN POLITICS IN APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR FOR 
                        WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION

  (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, as the saying goes, appearance is 
everything. If that is indeed the case, how does this appear to you?
  A judge who presides over a three-judge panel is given the authority 
to chose a special prosecutor to lead the investigations into what 
detractors say appears to be improprieties by the President in 
connection with the Whitewater case.
  During his deliberations, the judge meets on Capitol Hill with a U.S. 
Senator who has led efforts to oust the first special prosecutor 
because the first special prosecutor's professional ties appears to 
conflict with his duties as special prosecutor.
  Shortly after the meeting between the judge and the Senator, the 
three-judge panel replaces the first special prosecutor with a new 
special prosecutor, never mind that public statements made by the new 
special prosecutor against the President appears to bring into question 
his objectivity in conducting the investigation.
  Meanwhile, the judge and the Senator tell us that appearances can be 
deceiving, and are insisting that nothing untoward occurred during 
their lunchtime meeting.
  Mr. Speaker, this whole thing appears to me to be nothing more than 
partisan politics while wasting the taxpayers time and money in search 
of something--anything--which appears of substance in this whole 
Whitewater washout.

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