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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Records show Democrats'
stall tactics
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
emocrats on the House Government Reform
Committee sought for two years to delay and
obstruct the panel's campaign-finance investigation,
even telling a top White House aide to make himself
unavailable for a deposition to which he had been
subpoenaed, according to congressional records.
The documents, reviewed in the wake of
accusations this week by former Democratic
fund-raiser Johnny Chung that he was coached on
how to plead the Fifth Amendment before a 1997
appearance before the committee, outline a
suspected plan by Democrats to block the
committee's ongoing probe.
Republicans have begun an investigation to
determine what role Democrats played in trying to
protect the White House against accusations of
campaign-finance abuses.
Chung, in interviews this week with Fox News,
said Democrats sent his attorney a package of
materials explaining how he could avoid testifying.
The committee's minority counsel, Philip Schiliro,
told The Washington Times on Monday that Chung's
attorney, Brian Sun, had requested information on
whether he would be compelled to testify before the
panel and subjected to television cameras.....(more)[/quote]
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Records show Democrats'
stall tactics
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
emocrats on the House Government Reform
Committee sought for two years to delay and
obstruct the panel's campaign-finance investigation,
even telling a top White House aide to make himself
unavailable for a deposition to which he had been
subpoenaed, according to congressional records.
The documents, reviewed in the wake of
accusations this week by former Democratic
fund-raiser Johnny Chung that he was coached on
how to plead the Fifth Amendment before a 1997
appearance before the committee, outline a
suspected plan by Democrats to block the
committee's ongoing probe.
Republicans have begun an investigation to
determine what role Democrats played in trying to
protect the White House against accusations of
campaign-finance abuses.
Chung, in interviews this week with Fox News,
said Democrats sent his attorney a package of
materials explaining how he could avoid testifying.
The committee's minority counsel, Philip Schiliro,
told The Washington Times on Monday that Chung's
attorney, Brian Sun, had requested information on
whether he would be compelled to testify before the
panel and subjected to television cameras.....(more)[/quote]
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!