Republican who probed Clinton White House hits at Democrats for House investigations

[meegbear]

A Republican congressman who issued a large number of subpoenas for Clinton administration officials in the 1990s joined fellow Republicans in criticizing Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman for alleged overuse of subpoena authority, according to a story in today's edition of Roll Call. A former Clinton administration attorney fired back that Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN) was employing a double standard.

Burton chaired the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the 1990s, and became famous for issuing a wide variety of subpoenas to Clinton White House staff and other executive branch officials. In a report on the oversight activities conducted to date in the 110th Congress, Burton joined other House Republicans to warn Democrats not to "abuse" their authority.

"The minority is concerned the majority may abuse the deposition authority provided to this committee under the 110th House Rules. The minority also is concerned with the majority's practice of threatening subpoenas to witnesses unless they ‘agree’ to transcribed interviews," warned Burton with other Congress members.

But Lanny Davis, the White House special counsel who responded to Burton subpoenas on campaign finances and other matters while serving under Clinton, compared the situation to a late night TV show comedy sketch.

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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Republican_who_probed_Clinton_White_House_0410.html

[Kagemusha]

1. With all respect due to Burton - which is precious little...

What the hell is the problem with transcribed interviews? Why shouldn't Congress demand such interviews?

[youngdem]

2. Republican is synonymous with hypocrite n/t

[Sherman A1]

3. Pretty much sums it up!

:toast:

[BOSSHOG]

4. Daniel - transcribed interviews? Problem? Why?

A "threat" of a transcribed interview is an abuse? Why you chuckleheads are all comedians. Dan, if you and your kind have nothing to hide, then don't hide it in writing.

Are these jerkoffs still attempting to protect bush?

[SpiralHawk]

5. Bugger off, you hypocritical bloviator

Typical republicon. No moral compass whatsover.

[yellowcanine]

6. "Watermelon" Burton is flapping his lips about investigations? This, the guy who

was so obsessed with the notion that Vince Foster was murdered that ignoring all evidence to the contrary, he set out to investigate it himself and did some ballistics tests with a high powered rifle and several innocent watermelons?

[Lasher]

7. I just looked up 'hypocrite' in the dictionary and there was a picture of Dan Burton there

I don't think we Democrats should get carried away investigating the current administration. We should appoint a number of special prosecutors to drag everybody who ever knew Junior and Lord Vader into a partisan witch hunt but the campaign shouldn't cost more than $91 million or last more than 12 years.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2223218

After that amount of time has gone by and after we have spent that much of the taxpayers' money, we should encourage Publicans to share their views about how we have been excessive.

[LiberalFighter]

8. If only there were enough sane Hoosiers in Indiana to oust that bastard

[yourout]

9. With Pence and this yoyo the Hoosiers have their fair share of nutjobs.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Do you know that bastard has a brother name Charles 'Woody' Burton?

He is a Representative in the Indiana General Assembly.

[Supersedeas]

11. the grimy filth of Repig hypocrisy will not wash, no today...not ever

[grasswire]

12. remember who worked for Burton

They are now players in the US Attorney scandal. Barbara Comstock. Victoria Toensing. etc.

The same people who haunted the Clintons are involved in the politicization of the DoJ.

[EST]

13. There was a term that was so overused that it was instantly

wearying when invoked, during the final chapters of the Nixon reign. It was "credibility gap."
It initially sprang up from the "don't trust anybody over thirty" meme and the "generation gap."

That term needs to be resurrected and overused again.
And that may well happen, as the spotlight brightens and focuses on whatever republicker is vomiting at the moment.
Credibility is something that starts oozing away each time one of them opens his garbage hole. They'd do a bit better to just shut up and bear it, rather than popping off about crap that can be so easily checked and refuted.

Republicker credibility gap. Gotta be nuts to believe a damn thing any of them says.