Article: FBI FILES Clinton agrees apology in order White House aide allegedly perused secret reports on Republicans

The White House chief of staff said Sunday that it was wrong to obtain secret FBI files on 341 people, including prominent Republicans, and President Clinton agreed with him that those people deserved an apology.

"A mistake was made, it's inexcusable," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said of disclosures that a White House aide perused the files in late 1993 for White House security records. "I think an apology is owed to those who were involved," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

President Clinton, on a fund-raising trip to Las Vegas, said, "It appears to have been a completely honest bureaucratic snafu when we were trying to straighten out who should get security clearances to ...

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