[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 11, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1050-E1051]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       WHITE HOUSE ABUSE OF POWER

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                            HON. RON PACKARD

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 11, 1996

  Mr. PACKARD. Mr. Speaker, I would like to express my outrage at the 
blatant abuse of power exhibited by the White House. Recently 
discovered documents show that the White House requested and received 
341 highly confidential FBI records of former Reagan and Bush 
appointees.

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  The abuse of power and invasion of privacy wreaks of Big Brother. It 
is a blatant violation of the right to privacy the Constitution 
guarantees each and every American. Equally outrageous is the fact that 
the president invoked ``Executive privilege'' to prevent release of 
documents in which the request for FBI files was discovered.
  The Clinton administration is caught redhanded this time in what 
seems to be a reoccurring denial of responsibility, they explain it as 
just another goof by unknown bureaucrats--was the goof the fact that 
the documents were requested or the fact that the document requests 
were discovered? Further, we must also question who at the White House 
knew the files had been gathered and why were they kept at the White 
House rather than returned to the FBI after the error was discovered in 
1994?
  The changing and conflicting stories put forth by the Clinton 
administration are not acceptable. The American people deserve one 
story--the truth.

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