Thomas Foley: “let me underscore the comments of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings); I agree. I think we need to find out what…”

“let me underscore the comments of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings); I agree. I think we need to find out what the agencies knew at the time and why they were not, if you will, cross-pollinating that information, because that is one of the problems we have to review. What I take umbrage with is I think there was a certain amount of glee in some of the voices here in this Capitol because they had sensed that finally, they thought they found a weakness in the President to exploit for political purposes. That is what troubled me. I sense that we do have a lot of work to do, and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Hastings) is on the Select Committee on Intelligence; and he probably is privy to a lot more than I. We do have to find out the failures of the FBI, the CIA, Border Patrol, Immigration and Naturalization, student visas. I mean, we have a tremendous amount of activity that we have to undertake collectively as Democrats and Republicans. But I just in my heart of hearts was so startled when we left here last Thursday.”