On the recordJuly 10, 1996
As the one fellow said, if this was an innocent bureaucratic mistake, why is the bureaucrat most responsible taking the fifth amendment: If it is innocent, I would think they would be eager to get all this information out. They would be eager to get it all cleared up. But somebody said, Well, the people in the White House should come clean. It only helps to come clean if you are clean. And the fear and the suspicion that is building here, and I think among the American people, is that there are people inside that White House who are not clean. And there has been things going on there that they are not proud of, no one is proud of. The only way it is going to stop is if the Congress exercises its constitutional responsibilities and actually, the whole system is built on a system of checks and balances. It would not happen if it were not for the Republican Congress.
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