NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Indeed, to draw the proper analogy, and I thank my colleague from Indiana for yielding, but it would seem to me these…”

“Indeed, to draw the proper analogy, and I thank my colleague from Indiana for yielding, but it would seem to me these FBI files contain very personal information. And it would be akin to someone, a pickpocket, having hundreds of wallets that he had purloined from different folks. Now, maybe the pickpocket never used the credit cards in the wallet, maybe the pickpocket never took the currency out of the wallet to spend, but yet that wallet, something very close to someone, personal possessions, were taken away and in the possession of someone else who could have used that information, that currency, if you will, in this information age, in a very disparaging way. Sadly, again, it seems that was another example of some folks in the executive branch running roughshod over constitutional rights and, indeed, our traditions of law in this country.”