[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 92 (Thursday, June 20, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6631-H6632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR?

  (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, one of Bill Clinton's closest advisers, and 
best

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friends, Bruce Lindsey, has been named an unindicted coconspirator in 
the Arkansas trial of two bankers involved in the Whitewater scandal.
  Unindicted coconspirator? Mr. Speaker, when was the last time you 
heard that term used in relation to the White House? How about 1974. 
That is right--Watergate.
  Mr. Lindsey's designation as a coconspirator is a significant turn of 
events. What this means is that someone inside Bill Clinton's circle of 
top advisers has been linked directly to the illegal diversion of funds 
to Clinton's 1990 campaign for Governor.
  Mr. Speaker, Bill Clinton's propensity for unethical, if not 
blatantly illegal behavior, can no longer be ignored.
  Whitewater. Travelgate. Filegate. All of these scandals are just now 
starting to mushroom and they all demonstrate a White House devoid of 
any sense of ethical proportion.

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