Pete Sessions: “I think it says that it gives the United States clearly the option to do so, and pay for that election or not. In fact…”

“I think it says that it gives the United States clearly the option to do so, and pay for that election or not. In fact, I have in my hand a memorandum of the U.S. Department of Justice which says just that--interprets it just that way. It says on page 2, ``Because of the deep entrenchment of the La Cosa Nostra in the IBT's electoral process, the consent decree gave the Government the option to have the 1996 elections supervised by a court appointed officer.''”