Orrin Hatch: “Let me just finish my remarks and I will go to your final question. Why the double standard? Is there a specific…”

“Let me just finish my remarks and I will go to your final question. Why the double standard? Is there a specific allegation that my colleagues are concerned about for which they want to review these highly confidential documents? If there is, I would like to know what it is. I don't want a fishing expedition, even if we could give them. I don't think there is a good explanation as to why they want these documents. I think that is why everyone who looks at this in fairness views it as nothing but a fishing expedition, which is exactly what it is. We couldn't get Miguel Estrada any other way, so why don't we go fish through all these documents and find just something to pin our antagonism towards him on, so we do not look so doggone bad? Frankly, I think the arguments on the other side look terrible.”