[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 37 (Thursday, March 20, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1190]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CANNOT POLICE ITSELF

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the Justice Department cannot police 
itself. At Ruby Ridge, a 14-year-old boy was shot and killed, and his 
mother, holding her infant child, was shot and killed, shot right 
between the eyes; no criminal charges.
  At Waco, 83 Americans were killed, including 20 children; no criminal 
charges were filed.
  In Chicago, a court ruled that Justice Department personnel gave sex 
and drugs and alcohol to a number of informants to get them to offer 
perjured testimony; no criminal charges were filed.
  Mr. Speaker, who is kidding whom? When an unarmed 14-year-old can be 
shot and killed, his mother shot between the eyes, and there are no 
criminal charges filed, and the Justice Department says it was simply a 
mistake, Mr. Speaker, there is no justice in America. It is time for 
Congress to pass laws that will provide for independent counsel to 
investigate wrongdoing at the Justice Department.

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