[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6432]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          WE NEED TO KNOW WHY

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, the White House has now released statements 
from some of the political operatives involved in pawing through the 
confidential FBI background files of hundreds of political opponents. 
Those declarations are more important for what they do not say than for 
what they do.
  Craig Livingstone, the ex-bouncer and political hatchet man who is 
now being paid not to work, released his carefully lawyered statement 
saying that if he was asked to obtain FBI background files, and if he 
did obtain the files, and if he was asked to disseminate to other 
people the personal information that he learned from those files, and 
if he did give out that personal information to other people, well, 
then he did not do so for any purpose he thought was, quote, improper.
  The statement of course does not say what he defines as improper.
  The American people deserve to know exactly what happened and why. 
They deserve to know what the President means when he says that he 
takes full responsibility for this outrage, and we need to know why the 
President is treating Mr. Livingstone so very gentle.

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