Dan Burton: “I do not anticipate taking the whole 60 minutes, but I did think it was important to illuminate a few issues for my…”

“I do not anticipate taking the whole 60 minutes, but I did think it was important to illuminate a few issues for my colleagues and for anybody in the country take might be paying attention. We have been investigating the illegal campaign contributions that have come into the Democrat National Committee and the Clinton-Gore Committee of 1996 for about a year now. One of the biggest problems we have had, Mr. Speaker, is that 94 people, 94 people, have either taken the Fifth Amendment or fled the country. Now, when I had the FBI director, Mr. Louie Freeh, before my committee not long ago, I asked him if he had ever seen anything of that magnitude, and the FBI director said, ``Well as a matter of fact, Mr. Chairman, I have.'' And I said, ``Really? When was that?'' He said, ``When I was investigating organized crime in New York City.'' Now, during this past week, the Washington Post, on the Federal Page, for the first time of any major newspaper in the country listed everybody who has taken the Fifth Amendment or fled the country, and I commend them for that.”