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Cass Ballenger: yesterday the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee asked questions about a scandal that is even more serious…

On the recordAugust 5, 1998
yesterday the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee asked questions about a scandal that is even more serious than Filegate, even more outrageous than Travelgate, and even more troubling than Whitewater. This Oversight Committee asked the Justice Department's two top investigators why an independent counsel has not been named to investigate mountains of evidence that the Democrat Party took nearly $3 million in illegal campaign contributions from Communist China. One would think that the penetration of the American electoral system by a foreign power, a communist dictatorship with 13 nuclear missiles aimed at our shores no less, would not be a partisan issue. What are we to conclude from the other side's total lack of interest in getting to the bottom of this shocking scandal? What are we to conclude from the other side's silence, total silence, in the face of FBI Director Louis Freeh and Justice Department investigator Charles LaBella's public pleas for an independent counsel to investigate this matter? I really would hate to even speculate.
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Cass Ballenger
North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Addressing allegations of illegal campaign contributions from China during a House committee hearing.

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