Bob Barr: “when I served under President Reagan as U.S. attorney, one of my colleagues told me of a defendant, a public official…”

“when I served under President Reagan as U.S. attorney, one of my colleagues told me of a defendant, a public official who had just been convicted of corruption, who said, ``Mr. U.S. Attorney, we knew what we were doing was wrong, but nobody ever told us it was jail wrong.'' Well, Mr. Speaker, America was fortunate back then that we had U.S. attorneys and a Department of Justice that were concerned with people who were doing ``jail wrong'' things and prosecuted them. Now we have an Attorney General who is not only not concerned with prosecuting those who do wrong, but the best this Attorney General will do is to decide whether to decide whether to decide if we will have an independent counsel to investigate clear evidence of wrongdoing by the Vice President. Mr. Speaker, America yearns for the days when wrongdoers faced a Federal justice system that actually went after the bad guys. The time has come to clean up the Department of Justice.”