Kendra S. Horn: “the White House has stated on a number of occasions that it is fully cooperating with our committee subpoenas, but that…”

“the White House has stated on a number of occasions that it is fully cooperating with our committee subpoenas, but that is simply not true. The White House has given us some documents, but they consist mostly of highly censored items; the fancy word is redacted. It means they have blackened out everything on the page but perhaps one word, and we have dozens of copies of that, maybe hundreds. We asked for copies of correspondence involving these people. We get back newspaper clippings, blank pieces of paper and other irrelevancies. Mr. Speaker, the White House claims that it needs more time to comply, but our first subpoenas with served on March 4; that is over 2 months ago. Moreover, the first request for documents pertaining to one key player, John Huang, were made by former chairman Bill Clinger on October 31, 1996, before the election. Mr. Speaker, that is roughly 6 months of stalling by the White House, and the question has to be asked: What are they hiding? And why does the Whitehouse not want us to see any information about these 6 individuals?”