[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16824]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE DOCUMENTS?

  (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, at a time when our national security is of 
paramount importance, President Clinton laughed when asked what he 
thought about his former National Security Adviser stealing and losing 
highly classified national terrorism documents. But this is no trifling 
matter.
  The documents were codeword secret, the most highly guarded secrets 
we have. One or more copies of a memo, an analysis of the Clinton 
administration's antiterror efforts around the millennium, are still 
missing.
  In the highest levels of the Clinton administration, terrorism may 
have been a laughing matter. We know now it is not. This is a serious 
breach of security. This is the guy who served as a senior adviser to 
the Kerry campaign and wants a top spot in the Kerry administration.
  We should question Senator Kerry's judgment for placing him in a key 
position in his campaign.
  Fox News reported that he hid the documents in his socks 
``inadvertently.''
  Whether or not that is true, this whole thing stinks.

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