Dan Burton: “last fall we had a hearing on Haiti, and during that hearing we had the administration's point man, Ambassador James…”

“last fall we had a hearing on Haiti, and during that hearing we had the administration's point man, Ambassador James Dobbins, appear before the committee, and we asked him about the progress that was being made about the FBI investigation into the murders, the political murders that were taking place in Haiti, particularly the murder of Ms. Bertin, which took place in broad daylight in downtown Port-au-Prince. We subsequently found out during that hearing that Mr. Dobbins misled the committee. In fact, he lied to the committee. He said that the people in the Embassy down there, particularly himself, was not aware of FBI information that indicated that the Aristide government might have been involved in the murder of Ms. Bertin. The FBI agent that was in charge was sitting at the table with him and indicated that everybody at the Embassy had been notified about the investigation and that there was no cooperation from the Aristide government. The fact of the matter is there have been a lot of political assassinations that have taken place in Haiti, and none of these people connected with the government has ever been brought to justice.”