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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...
...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...
...White House, meanwhile, announced that former FBI and CIA director William Webster would review the practices of the IRS?s criminal investigative division. Van Voorst believes that while the agency badly needs reforming, ?the IRS is probably as bad as any other government agency, but no worse.? That, of course, is meager consolation for the victims of IRS zeal -- and they?re the ones who?ll have the mike in the days to come...
...jury expires on May 7, he almost surely won't impanel another one. The grand jury has not brought an indictment in two years, and sources familiar with the investigation say just one is in the works. Starr is said to be making another run at Clinton's pal Webster Hubbell, this time on tax charges. The problem is, Hubbell didn't provide any useful testimony in 1994, when Starr convicted him of bilking clients and partners at the Rose law firm. He isn't any more likely to do so now. And Hubbell isn't the only...
Even as one scandal dies for Bill Clinton, another comes back to life. Representative DAN BURTON's campaign-finance team is set in coming days to depose presidential pal WEBSTER HUBBELL on a sensitive subject. Burton's gumshoes have traced an additional $200,000 that went to Hubbell in 1994, bringing to $700,000 the total of gifts and fees raised by Clinton friends from sympathetic companies. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to determine if any of it was intended to buy Hubbell's silence about Clinton dealings at a time when Hubbell was being investigated. In the deposition...