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John Shadegg: “Leak it as soon as you know it, so that before the hearing you can call it old news. That one we watched play out last…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 1997
Leak it as soon as you know it, so that before the hearing you can call it old news. That one we watched play out last week, where it was very important in the Committee on House Oversight that we make all depositions instantaneously public so that they could be old news by the time the hearings were held, and we brought them out and brought them to light and pointed out, oh, by the way this sentence in the deposition demonstrates a crime.
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John Shadegg
Arizona

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Discussing the importance of making depositions public before hearings in the Committee on House Oversight.

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