David Obey: “I would like to invite Members of the House to join me in sending a letter to the Director of the FBI asking that he…”

“I would like to invite Members of the House to join me in sending a letter to the Director of the FBI asking that he consider appointing our colleague, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Burton], as the new head of the FBI forensics lab. Given the problems the FBI is having, he obviously has the ability to do the job. He discovered, when nobody else did, that Vince Foster's body was moved. Second, he obviously has the experience because he used his backyard to fire a bullet into 'a headlike object' to test his forensic theories. And certainly, in light of the revelations in the Washington Post yesterday about conversations with Pakistanis, he certainly can be counted on to run that lab with at least as much evenhandedness as he apparently will run the congressional investigation. Of course, given his decision to exempt Congress from the review of his committee, that is indeed damning with faint praise.”