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WASHINGTON: It was an ugly scene. House Government Reform Committee staffers tossing out unedited tapes containing 43 of Webster Hubbell's private prison conversations like so much animal feed, and hordes of reporters hungrily grabbing them. Even uglier: The tale the tapes told about Chairman Dan Burton's earlier, partial transcripts. "I believe this will once and for all put the lie to any accusations of editing, doctoring or out-of-context quotation," the Indiana Congressman wrote of the release earlier Monday...
...Which was a vain hope, for what emerged was one of the most gratuitous cases of selective tape editing since Watergate. Example: Burton's orginal transcript quotes Hubbell as saying "We have to be very careful about this... editorials are all talking about how this is designed to keep me and Susan quiet. We have to make sure that it's our personal friends that are helping." That turns out to be a composite of words from a larger statement, from which the following was deleted by Burton: "Most of the articles are presupposing that I, my silence is being...
...BURTON Congressman calls the President "scumbag." Again, lucky Clinton is boosted by a critic's blunder...
...ready for the Hubbell Tapes, Part II: Webb Strikes Back. Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chair of the House committee probing Clinton campaign finance misdeeds, got more than he bargained for after leaking an hour of "selected extracts" Friday from wiretapped recordings of Webster Hubbell speaking to wife Suzy from his prison cell back in 1996. Such quotes from the Clinton pal as "I will not raise those allegations that might open it up to Hillary" whet conservative appetites and piqued the media's interest. As for the other 149 hours, Burton said they were under wraps "to exclude anything...
...Burton, the evil of opening this particular Pandora's Box won't be ended by letting all the contents out. Hubbell and his attorney are upset that every minute of his private conversations -- genuinely personal moments included -- are about to enter the public domain. The ranking Democrat on Burton's committee, Henry Waxman, called for an inquiry into why his chairman "unilaterally subpoenaed these tapes, unilaterally released them and apparently unilaterally altered the content." Moral: Leaking snippets of tape can create a tangled web, as the Clintons already know...