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Jack Kingston: I have a staff member whose file was pulled. I want to give you the background, because when you think about this…

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
I have a staff member whose file was pulled. I want to give you the background, because when you think about this political operative left over from the Al Gore campaign, this Livingston and Marceca fellow, you think that they are checking out Newt Gingrich's file or maybe Dana Rohrabacher's file, but here is a profile of somebody who they checked on: hometown girl from Savannah, GA, mid-twenty's, graduated from the University of Georgia, comes to Washington, idealistic, as we all see thousands of young people each year, comes to Washington, gets a job, maybe making $18,000 a year in the White House. She is not in the inner circle. In fact, she never sees the President. But it is fun and exciting and in her own way she got to help change America. Well, 2 years of that, Clinton wins, she is out. She has moved up the ladder. I hired her for $25,000 a year in her late twenty's. This is the kind of person we are talking about. Now she finds out that her FBI file has been pulled and that some sleazy political operative is looking at her college education transcripts, her speeding tickets, her employment records, if a neighbor said something bad about her.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the misuse of FBI files in political contexts.

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