Barney Frank Calls Out Republican Senator: Stop Using ‘Weasel Words’ [View all]

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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/11/25/1232521/barney-franks-calls-out-republican-senator-stop-using-weasel-words/

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HUTCHISON: I’m very worried about this. I’m very worried. I want to know a whole lot more about what these first emails really were and did it really trigger an FBI investigation of the CIA director and a low level and it wasn’t raised to a higher level? I mean, if anybody is investigating the director of the CIA, the President of the United States should know immediately, and I feel like a, we don’t know enough, and, b, I have great concerns about a lot of this. [...]

FRANK: Are you suggesting there was some coverup, that the FBI are playing games? I think we ought to be explicit about this. I’m troubled by the implication of your statement and are you suggesting that something wasn’t legitimate here? Because that would trouble me.

HUTCHISON: I’m suggesting that I have great concerns about the legitimacy of…

FRANK: Excuse me, “great concerns” is kind of a weasel word….

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Barney Frank confronts Hutchinson for ‘weasel words’ linking Obama to Petraeus scandal

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“It seems to me, frankly, that you’re kind of hinting at something bad and I don’t see what that could be,” Frank pointed out. “I find those kind of implications very troubling. Do you distrust the FBI? Is FBI Director Robert Mueller lying? Who are you accusing of not having done the right thing?”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/25/barney-frank-confronts-hutchinson-for-weasel-words-linking-obama-to-petraeus-scandal/