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...House Government Reform Committee, under the leadership of longtime Clinton foe Dan Burton, began official hearings into the Marc Rich pardon on February 8. Since then, the committee has subpoenaed nearly everyone and everything involved in the Rich case - from ex-wife Denise Rich, who took the Fifth, to contribution records for the Clinton Library Foundation, which have been slow to emerge from behind a stubborn stonewall...
...Thursday, Burton shot off a letter of inquiry to infamous former first brother Roger Clinton, asking him to explain his involvement in several pardons and commutations, despite insistence from Bill Clinton that Roger played no significant role in the pardon process. Sure, Roger submitted a list of 10 friends and associates, and asked that they all be considered for pardons or commutations, but none of them actually got any good news on January 20. "The committee has received reports that you were involved in representing individuals seeking pardons from President Clinton," Burton wrote. Burton hopes to have Clinton's response...
...their experience that when it comes to Bill Clinton, Republicans have never failed to overbid a good hand. The first evidence that this could be a replay of scandals past came when Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter raised the possibility of a postseason impeachment trial. And Indiana Congressman Dan Burton's committee, already on its second round of subpoenas, is the same crowd that got nowhere on Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate and a raft of other Clinton scandals over the years. More ominous for Clinton is the inquiry that U.S. Attorney White announced last week in New York. Absent an immunized witness...
...this ninth year of the Clinton Administration, Clinton continues to soil Gore's reputation. Last Thursday it was Gore's allies who bore the brunt of the criticism for Clinton's eleventh-hour pardon of financier Marc Rich at hearings chaired, just for old times' sake, by Representative Dan Burton, of Who Murdered Vince Foster? fame. Clinton, with his eyes wide open, had his reasons for pardoning Rich--like the near half a million Denise Rich gave to his library--but the hot lights were trained on Jack Quinn--closer to Gore than to Clinton--and former Deputy Attorney General...
...That prompted Dan Burton, chairman and lead Clinton-hunter on the House Government Affairs Committee's ongoing investigation into the matter, to put on hold his request to the Justice Department to give Denise Rich immunity in exchange for her testimony. Rich has already declined to testify, citing her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination...