Slade Gorton
Slade Gorton
Thomas Slade Gorton IIIis an American politician. A Republican, he was a U.S. Senator from Washington state from 1981 to 1987, and from 1989 to 2001. He held both of the state's Senate seats in his career and was narrowly defeated for reelection twice as an incumbent: in 1986 by Brock Adams, and in 2000 by Maria Cantwell after a recount. Gorton was twice both senior senatorand junior senator. Since Gorton's 2000 re-election loss, no other Republican from Washington has...
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no charts, no data sets, and no analysis identifying Mohamed Atta or any of the other hijackers pre-9/11.
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I think it is impossible to overestimate the difficulty in moving a huge federal government with dozens and dozens of agencies from a culture in which information is treasured and kept and hidden, to one of appropriate information sharing.
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But again, it's easy to say that in hindsight. Almost no one in either party ... said it ahead of time.
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basically, with both administrations, I think each of them felt that it had a luxury of time, and it turned out that that luxury was not available to us.
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I don't know where those 70 field investigations were. The FBI didn't put them anywhere. Nobody in Washington knew about them.
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No evidence turns up to corroborate what people think they saw.
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She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,
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The state attorneys general have abandoned the slightest precepts that they're representing consumers, ... There are no consumer allegations in their complaint, and I doubt very seriously that there will be any in the Department of Justice's complaint because there is no damage to consumers. Consumers aren't asking for this lawsuit.
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a sacred contract between the federal government and those who count on it for tomorrow.
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All 10 of us are seriously disappointed in the F.B.I..
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In this we're giving the House every benefit of the doubt. And if more than one-third of the senators say ... under no circumstances, no matter what they prove, will I vote to convict, the question arises, do you go through the whole trial?
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I'm very happy to have that lead, disappointed that I told many of you you'd be able to go to sleep on a final result yesterday, and that's not quite the case. I'm optimistic about the ultimate result.
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I don't think that anyone could say that both administrations were asleep,
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I cannot will to my children and grandchildren the proposition that a president stands above the law and can systematically obstruct justice simply because both his polls and the Dow Jones index was high,