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TJ Cox: As I said earlier, it appears chiefly from this brand new memo, which we have had only for a few weeks, and also from…

On the recordSeptember 11, 1996
As I said earlier, it appears chiefly from this brand new memo, which we have had only for a few weeks, and also from all of the context of the administration's nonresponse to our request for those 3,000 documents, which they referred to as a request for toilet paper and which eventually yielded the information about Filegate and all the FBI files on earlier administrative personnel that they obtained for political purposes, that executive privilege, which has been their basis for refusing to turn over these documents, is increasingly becoming a synonym for coverup.
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TJ Cox
California

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Addressing concerns about the administration's refusal to provide requested documents.

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