Chuck Grassley: “last week, a new book hit the stands titled ``Blood Sport.'' It is written by Mr. James B. Stewart. The book is an…”

“last week, a new book hit the stands titled ``Blood Sport.'' It is written by Mr. James B. Stewart. The book is an account of the Whitewater issue. Many of us have had trouble understanding the issue. Reading this book helps. It makes a complicated financial scandal read more like a story. Mr. Stewart was given access to sources by the White House. In part, it was because he is ideologically compatible with the Clintons. Those are Mr. Stewart's bona fides for the book he writes about the President and the First Lady. In his own words, Mr. Stewart paints the character of the first couple this way: [T]he Clintons themselves proved no different from their recent predecessors in the White House, deeply enmeshed in a Washington culture so accustomed to partisan distortion and ``spin'' that truth is the most frightening prospect of all. Let me repeat that last phrase, Mr. President: `` * * * that truth is the most frightening prospect of all.'' Mr. Stewart's observation seems to substantiate those of columnist Charles Krauthammer.”