[Peach]

I was swimming and listening to Rush discuss this today...I missed parts of it but the very fact that Dorgan and Kerry are trying to insert the legislation in another bill speaks volumes.

[cyncooper]

The Democrats, saying that the $21 million investigation by Independent Counsel David Barrett should have ended long ago, succeeded in attaching an amendment to a spending bill Tuesday to cut off his funding by June 1.

~snip~

Barrett's investigation was wrapped up two years ago, and his 400-page final report was submitted to a three-judge panel last August, said two sources.

Because those named in the report have until the end of June to refute Barrett's findings, Kerry and Dorgan's amendment would prevent its release.

~snip~

So the investigation has in fact wrapped up and now this timing scheme has been cooked up to bury it.

I don't understand how cutting off his funding buries the report. It's done. I suppose it means he'd be unable to respond to the targets' refutation?

Can someone explain better why this cut-off of funding buries a report that's complete and submitted?