[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 56 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2935]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       SOME WANT TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM SCANDAL IN WHITE HOUSE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, let me see if I have got this straight. The 
same White House that hired private investigators to look into the 
private lives of Judge Starr and his deputies now is offended that the 
privacy rights of his victim friend, Web Hubbell, has been violated.
  The same White House that releases documents, subpoenaed documents, 
no less, one drip at a time, now is complaining that the Committee on 
Government Reform and Oversight is not being forthcoming in release of 
documents.
  The same White House which collected 900 FBI files, just all happened 
to be Republicans, is a defender now of privacy rights.
  The same Democrats who took the criminal intercept of a private 
conversation on a cellular phone last year and then released it to the 
press is now upset that the perfectly legal and routinely taped 
conversation of a convicted prisoner has been exposed for all the world 
to see.
  Maybe all these people simply wish to divert attention from the 
greatest scandal of them all: the one in the White House.

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