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Trey Gowdy: My question is simply this: What percentage of the truth do you want? When we're asked to negotiate; when the Attorney…

On the recordJune 28, 2012
My question is simply this: What percentage of the truth do you want? When we're asked to negotiate; when the Attorney General comes and asks us for an extraordinary accommodation, whatever that means; when we're asked to compromise; my question for our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, Mr. Speaker, is this: What percentage of the truth will you settle for? If you have ever sat on the other side of the table from parents who have lost a loved one, is 50 percent enough? Is that enough of the documents? Seventy-five percent? A third? The truth, the whole truth, so help me God--that is what we ask witnesses to do, jurors to do, and that's not too much for us to ask for the Attorney General of the United States of America to do. ____________________
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Trey Gowdy
Republican · South Carolina
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Jun 28, 2012

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