Sam Gejdenson: “I can frankly only remember one other similar instance, when a Senator from Wisconsin held up a list of 120 suspects in…”

“I can frankly only remember one other similar instance, when a Senator from Wisconsin held up a list of 120 suspects in the State Department, and somehow they were disloyal to the United States; never got any names, we never found any agents in the State Department, but boy, he had numbers out there and he was waving them around. What they have done here today is they cannot tell us the names because they are secret. Let me tell Members, the chairman of this committee has an obsession with secrecy. He tried to make the public minutes of a meeting secret at one of our first meetings, and astounded, frankly, all of my staff. We have come here today once again back exactly where we started. They have never before used the INS to check for election results. Why? One, we have never had an Hispanic woman we were looking at. So when we are dealing with other ethnic groups of this country, we do not think of going to the INS. What did the INS tell the chairman of the committee and the Congress when it was first asked for these numbers? And, by the way, these are not all the numbers they have. They started off with half a million suspects in a district where 100,000 people voted. The INS said, you cannot use our files to verify voters. But even if we look at their numbers down to that final thousand, from that we cannot tell whether that final thousand voted for Sanchez or Dornan. The law says we have to prove it would change the outcome.”