No, I think who put up the biggest fuss is Dan Burton.
Huh. I think that they were throwing snowballs in hell after this quoted comment by Barney Frank in the New York Times.
Mr. Bush's action produced angry criticism from the chairman of the committee, Representative Dan Burton of Indiana, a fellow Republican who has been known principally as a relentless critic of Mr. Clinton.
At the same time, several of the committee's Democrats agreed at a hearing today that Mr. Bush's decision was an excessive use of executive power. Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, even offered an unexpected tribute to Mr. Burton for his persistence in seeking the documents about the F.B.I.'s behavior in Boston.
Mr. Frank said he and others had misjudged Mr. Burton as a partisan Republican motivated only by a desire to hound Mr. Clinton. "I see now a genuine intellectual integrity in his approach," Mr. Frank said.
"Most House Republicans have been very submissive to the White House," Mr. Frank said, adding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's problems with mob informers was a perfectly appropriate subject for Congressional oversight.
A rare moment of "sunshine" from the NYT. When Barney Frank, "doth protests too much", I know that Bush/Ashcroft landed a "blow"(sorry about the bad pun).