Gosh, it seems we now have Republicans calling Republicans hypocritical.

Burton also noted that Ashcroft, as a Republican senator, supported Burton's efforts to force former Attorney General Janet Reno to turn over similar memos during the Clinton-era fund-raising investigations.

"I am concerned that you have one standard for a Democrat attorney general and another standard for yourself," Burton wrote, citing a 1998 transcript of an Ashcroft TV appearance.

"Your position in 1998 was unambiguous and it was correct. Thus, I am at a loss as to why you would take a contradictory position just a few years later," Burton said.
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Burton said while he held high regard for Ashcroft, a fellow Republican, "my personal confidence in you does not diminish the responsibility of this committee to conduct vigorous oversight of the Department of Justice."

"Unfortunately, rather than meet me halfway as other administrations have done and as you yourself have demanded in the past you have elected to follow a course that makes Congress subservient to the executive branch. This I cannot accept," he said.