[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6515]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FBI FILEGATE SCANDAL?

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, in order to help me and the American people 
decipher the police state tactics of the FBI files scandal, I tried to 
figure out what an innocent bureaucratic mistake was. I thought it 
might help to look up the word ``innocent'' in the dictionary. 
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary states that the word ``innocent'' 
has the following definition: free from guilt through lack of 
knowledge.
  Mr. Speaker, this really did not help, because how could anyone 
realistically have a lack of knowledge that all of the names in the 
files in question were Republican White House personnel? Certainly the 
White House should know our former Secretary of State James Baker, who 
was on the list, is not really a security risk.
  Mr. Speaker, my colleagues and I ask just one thing of the Clinton 
White House with regard to the new FBI Filegate scandal. It is the same 
question we have asked with so many of the scandals down at this White 
House: When are we going to hear the truth?

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