Floor Speech - July 21, 2004

What happened to those documents?

Mr. Speaker, 

At a time when our national security is of paramount importance, President Clinton laughed when asked what he thought about his former National Security Adviser stealing and losing highly classified national terrorism documents. 

But this is no trifling matter.

The documents were codeword secret, the most highly guarded secrets we have. 

One or more copies of a memo, an analysis of the Clinton administration's antiterror efforts around the millennium, are still missing.

In the highest levels of the Clinton administration, terrorism may have been a laughing matter. We know now it is not. 

This is a serious breach of security. 

This is the guy who served as a senior adviser to the Kerry campaign and wants a top spot in the Kerry administration.

We should question Senator Kerry's judgment for placing him in a key position in his campaign.

Fox News reported that he hid the documents in his socks ``inadvertently.''

Whether or not that is true, this whole thing stinks.