The New York Times offers this report, which begins: ” There was a time — four weeks ago, for instance — when the Office of the General Counsel for the House of Representatives was just another nearly invisible government agency, working about as far from public notice as is possible on Capitol Hill. But the F.B.I.’s raid last month on the offices of Representative William J. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat at the center of a bribery investigation, has drawn the general counsel’s office and the woman who leads it, Geraldine R. Gennet, into a rare public fight with the executive branch. The May 20 raid, the first executed on a Congressional office at least since the United States Constitution was adopted, has angered a bipartisan group in Congress that views it as an unjustified intrusion into the legislative branch’s autonomy and a violation of the government’s fundamental separation of powers. “