Burton (R-Indiana) wants all the info on missing White House emails

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/05/04/wh.email/index.html

E-mail hearings yield fireworks, but no new information
Former White House lawyer blasts Burton in emotional testimony

By Ian Christopher McCaleb/CNN

May 4, 2000
Web posted at: 6:06 p.m. EDT (2206 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Day four of the House Government Reform Committee's public hearings into the thousands of missing White House electronic mail messages focused Thursday on the operations of the White House Counsel's Office -- with former Counsel Charles Ruff telling the panel that perceptions of the situation as anything other than a technical problem were misleading.

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Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton (R-Indiana) is exploring whether the White House deliberately withheld e-mails that had been subpoenaed or otherwise requested by his committee, as well as Starr and Justice Department campaign finance investigators.

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In her opening statement, Mills pilloried Burton and the panel's Republicans for their ongoing investigations, saying she left public service because she had been "deeply troubled by the culture of partisanship in Washington," and had become "cynical about the congressional committee's commitment to serve the people."

In his opening statement, Burton had chastised Mills for not being more willing to alter her personal schedule to appear before the committee.

"They've got an uphill battle to convince us everything is on the up-and-up," Burton said of the three witnesses.