Senate Panel Gets Perot Deposition on POW-MIA Issue
WASHINGTON — Two investigators from the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs took testimony Wednesday from Ross Perot, a committee spokeswoman said.
The unannounced independent presidential candidate gave a deposition in Dallas on his views of the handling of the POW-MIA issue by five administrations, spokeswoman Deborah DeYoung said. She said the panel planned to make his testimony public “as soon as we can,†depending on any necessary follow-up interviews.
Perot had been scheduled to testify before the committee on prisoner-of-war and missing-in-action cases earlier this week, but he canceled that appearance. He wrote to the panel chairman, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), that he was declining to appear because he feared that the event would turn into a “political circus†during the presidential campaign.
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