Joel Hefley: “in order to help me and the American people decipher the police state tactics of the FBI files scandal, I tried to…”

“in order to help me and the American people decipher the police state tactics of the FBI files scandal, I tried to figure out what an innocent bureaucratic mistake was. I thought it might help to look up the word ``innocent'' in the dictionary. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary states that the word ``innocent'' has the following definition: free from guilt through lack of knowledge. Mr. Speaker, this really did not help, because how could anyone realistically have a lack of knowledge that all of the names in the files in question were Republican White House personnel? Certainly the White House should know our former Secretary of State James Baker, who was on the list, is not really a security risk. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues and I ask just one thing of the Clinton White House with regard to the new FBI Filegate scandal. It is the same question we have asked with so many of the scandals down at this White House: When are we going to hear the truth?”