Dan Burton
Taped Exchange Exposes “Pit Bull” Dan Burton as Yapping Lap Dog
Feb. 3, 2013, David Martin
When he was a backbench member of the minority Republican Party, Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana made more noise than any member of Congress about the flawed “investigations” of the death by gunshot of Bill Clinton’s deputy White House counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr. He claimed that his approach to politics was, according to the March 19, 1997, Washington Post, that of a pit bull. The Post also described Burton as “extraordinarily tenacious” and called him a “conservative firebrand.”
…When the Republicans had gained control of the House of Representatives the previous November and Burton had unexpectedly been elevated to the chairmanship of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, critics of the government in the Foster case had good reason to believe that, at last, a truly independent inquiry would be made. A leader among that group was a man who had already done quite a bit of investigation of his own, Reed Irvine, the head of the conservative media watchdog organization, Accuracy in Media.
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