Mark Souder: “And to take the gentleman's analogy further, in addition to, in effect, pickpocketing people's billfolds and private…”

“And to take the gentleman's analogy further, in addition to, in effect, pickpocketing people's billfolds and private things that were official and on record, this is not a matter of FBI files where they just have whether an individual has been picked up for a parking ticket or where they went to college. These are when an individual applies for a secure government job and they go try to find out what anybody says about them. So there are raw unedited transcripts of if somebody says I saw him at dinner somewhere and he was having an affair. I saw him at a gay bar one time. I heard that he beats his kids. These things are in those files and individuals do not even know they are in their files, and yet we have kids, we had all sorts of people walking around with these. The question comes, were they potential blackmail files for people who were holdover, or for people who they had to do business with outside, or for, quite frankly, staff members who used to work in the administration and came over. We do not know, and that is still unanswered. But as we moved through this, we turned up Craig Livingstone, and he was in charge of White House security and the files, along with Anthony Marceca, who had been kicked out of different campaigns for multiple questions, had had various problems in their lives. The question was who hired these people? Craig Livingstone would not say who hired him. The attorneys would not say who hired him.”