Word: burtons
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...news for Burton-bashers: The pit bull's still with us. A bid to oust the outspoken Indiana Republican failed Wednesday when Burton used his power as chairman of the House committee on governmental reform and oversight to quash ranking Democrat Henry Waxman's motion. And despite Waxman's vow to take it to the floor of the House, it looks as if Burton has finally weathered the storm over his recent editing of the Web Hubbell tapes. One small success for the Democrats: They managed to block Burton's attempt to give immunity to four potential committee witnesses, whom...
...Burton thinks the White House bugs his phone. Dan Burton is so convinced Vince Foster was murdered that he brought a pistol into the backyard of his Indiana home and reenacted the crime -- reportedly with a pumpkin standing in for Foster's head. Dan Burton is so afraid of catching AIDS that he brings his own scissors to the House barbershop and refuses to eat soup at public restaurants. But the man who will do or say anything to nail Bill Clinton suddenly has the worst problem a paranoiac can have: He keeps making more enemies. And they...
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...
...Even more egregious: Where Hubbell says the word "reality", Burton substitutes "Riady." A Freudian slip, no doubt. Burton's explanation? "When you've got 150 hours of tape and you've got to condense it down to an hour," he told reporters, "obviously you're going to do some things that some people are concerned about." Whether that will quell the demands for his resignation from the chairmanship remains to be seen...