Pete Sessions: “I must say that those remarks are troubling to me and I do not believe contribute to really the kind of bipartisan…”

“I must say that those remarks are troubling to me and I do not believe contribute to really the kind of bipartisan effort that we need to make here in this body with regard to the delicate problem of the President's troubles. It was raised under the pretension or the suggestion as part of an evaluation of the independent counsel but really amounted to, I think, an unfair restatement of many charges that have been made against the independent counsel, most of which I believe have already been answered, or could be answered pretty easily. I served as a prosecutor for a number of years, and I would like just to share some thoughts. I prosecuted a number of government officials. And it was my experience during that process that government officials, more than any other person I had the occasion to investigate, were the most aggressive and most impossible to the prosecutor. It is part of their team effort with their attorneys to attack the person who is out speaking the truth. It is not an easy job for this independent counsel to obtain the truth.”