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Article: Filegate unshredded. (Bill Clinton White House FBI files scandal)(Capital Scene)(Column)
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- National Review
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- July 15, 1996
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FROM his perch high on the third tier of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee's stacked hearing room, Rep. Tom Lantos (D., Calif.) is waving his arms and talking of a GOP effort to smear the Clintons. "Isn't it true [that] in conducting an FBI investigation of you," he asks a Republican witness whose FBI file has been obtained by the White House, "you initially granted your consent?" Therefore, Lantos reasons, "these were not files that were obtained without your consent." When the witness tries to reply -- he never, obviously, consented to having a Democratic operative rifle through his FBI file -- Lantos cuts him off, maintaining that he hadn't asked a ...