Arlen Specter: “I then note an article in the New York Times dated December 12, 1996, which discussed release of another report which…”

“I then note an article in the New York Times dated December 12, 1996, which discussed release of another report which apparently had been leaked to the New York Times for reasons set forth in the New York Times article, which said: Officials sympathetic to the Air Force position made available Wednesday selected parts of a classified review the Air Force conducted into the bombing. The review, written by Lt. Gen. James F. Record, commander of the 12th Air Force, cites, for example, the assessment of a senior U.S. intelligence official in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, that the intelligence reports given to General Schwalier "did not give a target" for the terrorist attack. So, by this time, some of the Air Force were dissatisfied with General Downing's report and wanted a report which would satisfy them. So another report had been commissioned, this time to be written by Lt. Gen. James F. Record. On seeing that additional news leak of the report, which the Intelligence Committee did not have a copy of, Mr. President, I then wrote to Secretary Widnall on the same day, December 12, noting the access by the New York Times but no access by the Senate Intelligence Committee.”