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Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
External shot of Capitol.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Representative Lee Hamilton (D - Indiana) The Central Intelligence Agency does respond to our questions. But they are very careful not to give us information beyond what we ask for. So there s a heavy burden on us to ask the right questions.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Former CIA Chief William Colby, That s a flip remark and it s an easy one to say. But I think in the experience of most of the Senators and Congressmen, the CIA comes up and gives a briefing. I mean the Nicaragua briefing, for example, apparently had a reference in it to mining of ports. Now, that s a fairly descriptive statement because you re not going to put mines in a port without them going off some time. Now, you have to brief about a large number of things and therefore you are going to have to generalize to a degree. You can t give every detail in every briefing or you d be up there the rest of the week.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Senator Daniel Inouye (D - Hawaii), chair of first Senate Intelligence Committee, It didn t say that we ll be briefing you and you ll have to be on the lookout because out of these 100 pages we may come across with a certain code word. And if you don t get that code word, it s your fault. Now, we weren t set up to work like that.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Shots of Senate Intelligence Committee
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Senator David Durenberger (R - Minnesota) The staffs are not working well together. And that s a joint responsibility of Committee staff and the CIA. The CIA is not volunteering information. And the Committee staff is not going looking for information.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Representative Lee Hamilton (D - Indiana) I m not personally satisfied with the way the system functions. I don t think we do nearly a good enough job of oversight.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Senator David Durenberger (R - Minnesota) The staff is going to be a lot tougher with them in the future. And we re going to have to treat them like a bunch of kids I guess and set-up some guidelines that say every day you re going to do this, and every week you re going to do that and every month you re going to do that.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Representative Lee Hamilton (D - Indiana) Eventually it comes down to a question of money. Will the Central Intelligence Agency get the money they want for the particular activity.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Senator Daniel Inouye (D - Hawaii), Worse comes to worse, they can wipe out the Agency.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Paul Duke in studio with Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer discuss the CIA, efforts to amend relations, pressure on Casey to resign, effect being Casey had to grovel quite a bit to Congress to remain in office. Mining Nicaragua harbors is uncomfortable to voters, especially women worried about the Reagan Administration s attitude toward war.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984 - Organ donation
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Cokie Roberts introduces report on the organ donor crisis and Congress s efforts to simplify donor process, make transplants less a matter of politics and means.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Woman with 2 year-old girl in children's ward of hospital, girl has split on arm and breathing tube in nose, cries. Girl needs a liver transplant, but has no eligible donor. CU of mother s hand holding child s. Parents, girl moving down hospital hall, mother pushes IV/respirator machine, father pushes girl in stroller. Girl's father discusses difficulty in finding suitable liver. He says a central organ bank is needed.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Surgeon in masks/scrubs, removing a kidney. Shot of operating room from ceiling camera. Doctors standing over patient.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
In a hospital ward, teenaged girl in chair, connected to dialysis machine.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Surgeon carrying a human liver in hands. People loading plastic coolers into van. Voiceover heart and liver patients must turn to private organ providers, supply is low.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Infant in hospital bed, cries, IV in arm.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
DO NOT USE Still photo of REAGAN, v.o. of a speech, REAGAN makes plea for organ donor.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Shot of baby girl, mashing hands into frosting of a birthday cake.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Congressman Charles Stenholm (D - Texas) Ashley never got a liver. The bright side of that is that we counted some 6 to 8 individuals who did receive a liver transplant because of the President s efforts on her behalf.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
American flag flying, pull back to show the White House.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Congressman Charles Stenholm (D - Texas) After making this appeal and having the President of the United States, on two occasions, mention Ashley s case personally, we found out that she was not on all of the individual donor lists. And this was something that we became aware of. And we thought that with all this publicity everybody knew about it, but they didn t. So some centralized system is very much needed and the House bill certainly goes a long way in the right direction.
Lawmakers - April 26, 1984
Shot of the United States Capitol building.