Posted on 10/26/2005 6:55:04 PM PDT by kellynla
EDITOR'S NOTE: Late yesterday, Byron York reported that the court which oversees independent counsel David Barrett has ordered the release of Barrett's report on the Henry Cisneros investigation. The report has been finished since August 2004, but some Clinton-era officials, apparently worried that the report would cast them in a negative light, have filed a number of secret motions with the court to delay its release. Yesterday, after Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley asked the court for a copy, the judges issued a decision that would release part of the report to the public, and all of the report to Congress. For those who might be a little fuzzy on the details of Barrett's ten-year investigation, Byron looked into the matter in the June 2, 2003, issue of National Review:
Remember Henry Cisneros? Of course; he was the once-rising Democratic star who became Bill Clinton's first secretary of housing and urban development. Here's a tougher one: Remember Linda Medlar? In case you've forgotten, she was Cisneros's mistress — the woman at the center of the scandal that brought him down.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Funny how this is not even news.
Funny how if they DO release it, they will do so in the hyperventilation of Fitzgerald's investigation and therefore, the media will have a reason to ignore it...old news...move along...nothing here....
This is a good thing. The investigation also involves abuses by the Clinton admin that involve using the IRS to audit political enemies. Lets hope it knocks something loose.
"Funny how this is not even news."
It is now! LOL
Why can't they ever talk normally?
Looking forward to the details!
BUMP
So it's been 10 days and no news.
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