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Orrin Hatch: Although Representative Clinger had a right to ask for it, I am not sure they should have given it to him. But they did.…

On the recordSeptember 11, 1996
Although Representative Clinger had a right to ask for it, I am not sure they should have given it to him. But they did. But at least before they gave it to him, somebody leaked it to U.S. News & World Report. That somebody had to be somebody in the Justice Department or the White House, which were the only two bodies who could possibly have had it. The White House called me, and, in all fairness to them, they said it wasn't them. So it had to be. If it was not them, the Justice Department, or somebody who got into the Justice Department, stole it. I do not think that is possible.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the leak of documents related to the Justice Department during a Senate floor debate.

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