The Insider (1999)

Colm Feore: Richard Scruggs

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• Richard Scruggs : I know what you're facing, Jeff. And, I think I know how you're feeling. In the Navy I flew A-6's off carriers. In combat, events have a duration of seconds, sometimes minutes. But what you're going through goes on day in and day out. Whether you're ready for it or not, week in, week out. Month after month after month. Whether you're up or whether you're down. You're assaulted psychologically. You're assaulted financially, which is its own special kind of violence because it's directed at your kids. What school can you afford? How will that affect their lives? You're asking yourself, "Will that limit what they may become?" You feel your whole family's future's compromised, held hostage. I do know how it is.

• Richard Scruggs : I'd be lying to you if I did not tell you how important it was in a court of public opinion.

  Lowell Bergman : And I'd be lying if I did not tell, I'm about out of moves, Dick.