Orrin Hatch: “Today I introduced a bill to address a grave miscarriage of justice--the wrongful investigation prosecution of Mr. Billy…”

“Today I introduced a bill to address a grave miscarriage of justice--the wrongful investigation prosecution of Mr. Billy Dale and the other former White House Travel Office employees. Mr. Dale served his country at the pleasure of eight Presidents as the Director of the White House Travel Office. During his 32 years of service, Mr. Dale took on the thankless and often grueling task of ensuring that the national and international media were in a position to cover the movements of the President and thus report to the American and worldwide public. As thanks for his numerous years of dedicated service, Mr. Dale was summarily discharged from his post on May 19, 1993, and was thereafter indicted and prosecuted for embezzlement. On December 1, 1995, after 2 1/2 years of being investigated and haunted on a daily basis, Mr. Dale was tried before a jury of his peers and, in less than 2 hours, found not guilty of all charges. The travesty in this situation is that Mr. Dale simply got caught in the political crossfire of a new administration.”