Lady look bad, chairman burton vows to release all 54 conversations in their entirety today. the move came after meet the press contained an excerpt. not previously released in which hubbell said-harrisburg was not part of any wrongdoing at their former law firm. so, the whole secret prison tape story was a scandal. but not because of anything hillary clinton had done. but because it was a fraud. it was a totally debunked snow job. and when it was revealed that dan burton s office had edited those phone calls and released those partial tapes to the public, the congressman had to admit that quote, mistakes and omissions were made. he did not lose his job. he did not resign. he did not get fired. but one of dan burton s employees, his top investigator, david bossy, did get fired. congressman burton blamed the whole thing on david bossy and fired him.
If the name sounds familiar, he ends up returning to prominence years later as the head of citizens united, which led a lot of rich guys waste a lot of their own personal money on the last election when it got rid of finance laws for david bossy to air his i still hate hillary clinton fake documentary during the 2008 election. things worked out fine for david bossy. his legacy it turns out lives on in the different way besides just the supreme court. because the partial transcript trick he pioneered under dan burton in the 1990s, it s now happening again. in this congress. just this week on tuesday night, we did a report on this show on the legacy of dan burton and the guy who inherited his job as chairman of the oversight committee in the republican controlled house. a report was titled putting the
Bad things. maybe even criminal bad things. now on tape, phone calls from prison. we re on a recorded phone. did he say anything damaging about his friends, the clintons? in one tape, the issue is protecting the first lady. hubbell s wife says he can t sue his old law firm over a billing dispute because that might expose hillary, his former law partner. makes it look like you really don t give a [ bleep ] and that it s wrong that you re opening hillary up to all of this. i would not do that. i won t raise those allegations that might open it up to hillary, and you know that. congressional investigators, specifically the chair of the house government reform and oversight committee, dan burton, had acquired 54 tapes of web hubbell s phone calls from
Calls from prison, sort of maybe indicating the clintons, especially hillary clinton, in bad things. maybe even criminal bad things. now on tape, phone calls from prison. we re on a recorded phone. did he say anything damaging about his friends, the clintons? in one tape, the issue is protecting the first lady. hubbell s wife says he can t sue his old law firm over a billing dispute because that might expose hillary, his former law partner. makes it look like you really don t give a [ bleep ] and that it s wrong that you re opening hillary up to all of this. i would not do that. it might open it up to hillary and you know that. congressional investigators, specifically the chair of the house government reform and oversight committee, dan burton, had acquired 54 tapes of web
Hubbell s phone calls from prison and from the very carefully edited portions of those conversations, it really did seem like something fishy was going on. that hubbell was maybe secretly trying to protect hillary clinton from getting in trouble for some thing. some bad seeming maybe even criminal thing and that maybe hillary clinton had bought off her former close friend to keep him quiet about her misdeeds even as he went to prison. the tapes that congressman dan burton released made it seem like there was just a bombshell about the first lady. but then two days later, this happened. as you know, your office released 27 pages of transcripts. we have obtained the full transcript and audio tape and there s a major portion left out involving hillary clinton. mr. burton, that is rather exskull pa torre and you left it