Political Quotes

“I think it is important, Mr. President, because more recently in 1992 the Congress conducted investigations into a bank scandal, the BNL bank scandal, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on which I served as cochairman worked for months to learn whether the CIA had misled the Justice Department prosecutors or withheld important information on the prosecution of BNL bank officials in Atlanta, GA. During that period, however, the very same period the House Banking Committee under Chairman Gonzalez was unrelenting in its zeal to hold hearings on BNL and became particularly excited over this issue during the height of what was the Presidential campaign. Excitement was so high, Mr. President, that a special counsel was appointed by Attorney General Barr to look into many of the same issues as we were investigating in the Intelligence Committee. So the point is that, indeed, there is a precedent for this. There is longstanding precedent. It is a continuing precedent.”