Dan Burton: “If the gentleman will yield, first of all, I will concede that President Clinton probably is one of the finest…”

“If the gentleman will yield, first of all, I will concede that President Clinton probably is one of the finest politicians on the stump I have ever seen. I say this with all due respect to President Reagan, and I think he is even more effective than President Reagan was, and Reagan was the best I had seen up to that time. Let me just tell my colleague, the gentleman from California, I am very concerned about the Whitewater investigation. A few months ago we were investigating Ron Brown, the head of the Department of Commerce, because allegations had been made by a man named Binh Ly that he took a $700,000 up-front payoff to normalize relations with Vietnam, and to lower the trade barriers with them, even though we were not going to get a full accounting of our POW-MIA's. The gentleman who made the accusation also said that the money was being transferred to Bank Indosuez in Singapore by the Vietnamese Government. The FBI gave Mr. Ly a 6-hour lie detector test. He passed it, the FBI verified a large sum of money was transferred to a bank in Singapore by the Vietnamese Government, and yet when the grand jury investigated this case down in Miami, the Justice Department, Janet Reno, I believe, and I do not know this for sure, but I believe at the request of the White House, sent one of her top aides down to conduct a grand jury investigation.”