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TJ Cox: “For a very long while, The request for 3,000 pages was originally described not all that long ago by the White House as…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1996
For a very long while, The request for 3,000 pages was originally described not all that long ago by the White House as a request for toilet paper, that this was a trivial request, that they should not be asked for such documents. When finally we got the first 1,000 pages of the 3,000 that we requested, we got the famous list of all of the FBI files, the background files, the very, very confidential law enforcement background files, on people who had worked in the White House. These had been collected illegally by the White House for patently political purposes.
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Discussing the White House's handling of document requests related to FBI files.

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