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On the recordSeptember 20, 1996
Well, I think we have to be in this for the long haul. This is not something that is going to reap us any substantial answers in the short period of time. We are going to run into walls of secrecy; I just anticipate that. I anticipate that we are not going to be satisfied. However, we have gotten representations of cooperation from the CIA Director. Everybody wants to cooperate, they say. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I think we have to be prepared to move at the right time to do whatever we have to do in order to continue, in order to approach it from a different direction, and so this is a beginning. We start with this possibility of investigation by the CIA, or rather by the Inspector General. We have gotten word from Newt Gingrich, who responded to me and wrote me a letter indicating that he indeed was going to proceed with the chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Combest, in opening an investigation.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Discussing the need for a long-term investigation into alleged CIA involvement in drug trafficking.

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