Duncan Faircloth: “Mr. Lasater has a lot to do with Whitewater, and the Senator from Arkansas should know that. Mr. Lasater was convicted…”

“Mr. Lasater has a lot to do with Whitewater, and the Senator from Arkansas should know that. Mr. Lasater was convicted of ``social distribution'' of cocaine. He was sent to prison. He was pardoned for his crime of drug trafficking by then-Governor Bill Clinton. Dan Lasater's company received tens of millions of dollars of State bonding contracts from the Arkansas development and finance authority. This was an agency controlled by Governor Clinton. Patsy Thomasson was Dan Lasater's top assistant for nearly 10 years. She had his power of attorney to handle his financial interests and run his companies while Dan Lasater was serving time in prison for trafficking in cocaine. Now, in a twist of irony, the former head of the Arkansas Development Finance Agency is head of White House personnel, and guess who his deputy is? Dan Lasater's former deputy, Patsy Thomasson. The committee is specifically charged under Senate Resolution 120 with probing the links between Dan Lasater and the Arkansas Development Finance Agency. The link takes us right to the top of the White House. If that does not bring Dan Lasater into Whitewater, I do not know what does. Is this why the White House wants to stop the investigation? All of a sudden, after being willing to throw millions and billions of dollars at any project anywhere in the world, now they say we cannot continue, we cannot afford this investigation; it is breaking the Government. We send foreign aid around the world.…”