Cisneros probe side effects

The Washington Times ^ | January 6, 2006 | R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

[neverdem]

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com

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Cisneros probe side effects

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Published January 6, 2006

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In a very clever year-end column the venerable William Safire writing in the New York Times asks whether "special prosecutor David Barrett's 400-page exposé of political influence within the Internal Revenue Service and the Clinton Justice Department" will be the government report "most likely to resist investigative reporting" this year. I certainly hope not.

    The misuse of the IRS and Justice Department has a long record going back to Richard Nixon and Watergate and before that to Franklin Roosevelt and his harassment of former Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon and publisher Moses Annenberg. Wealthy individuals such as Mellon and Annenberg can protect themselves -- though Annenberg was cruelly sent to jail. Ordinary citizens cannot, and the way the IRS is set up today not much provocation is necessary to instigate a costly investigation -- costly to ordinary taxpayers.

    People familiar with the Barrett Report claim that during his investigation of former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, Mr. Barrett came across illegal IRS and Justice Department activity in the Clinton years that involved corruption and infringements on the civil liberties of private citizens. A whistle-blower in the IRS, John Filan, delivered up an 18-page blueprint sketching out the illegal activities and perhaps identifying the victims. Sources claim it contains some of the most illuminating revelations of IRS misconduct ever. Lawyers at the Clintons' ever-reliable Washington firm of Williams and Connolly have bottled up the report since it was finished in August 2004. Democrats and a couple of incompetent Republicans have seen to it that...

[neverdem]

The NY Times column of Bill Safire was The Office Pool, 2006. The excerpt doesn't include the question about the David Barrett report.

[BenLurkin]

Other than CLintoon and Nixon I know of no other Presidents in my lifetime who committed this type of abuse.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

This is going to be a very, very interesting year!

[MonroeDNA]

When it is leaked in full, Dems will cry out to prosecute the leaker.

[Jacquerie]

One of the articles of impeachment prepared against Nixon was IRS abuse. Ask a young marxist attorney that was on the congressional staff. She's known now as the Hildebeast. Said beast and her rapist husband are currently above the law. The Old Media will protect her and his legacy at all costs.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I don't know why Chuck Grassley just doesn't mail copies to his constituents.

[aimhigh]

I don't know why Chuck Grassley just doesn't mail copies to his constituents.

There was a reason the Clintons read all those FBI files. They have their own tools for keeping Congress tight lipped.

[EternalVigilance]

It was obvious during the Clinton years that the IRS was being misused for nefarious political reasons. Practically every conservative organization was being audited.

[Condor51]

***Other than CLintoon and Nixon I know of no other Presidents in my lifetime who committed this type of abuse.***

Read 2nd paragraph above - FDR did it too.

In fact, when it comes to abuse of power and outright law breaking, NO ONE comes close to FDR - and I don't mean the internments of Germans, Italians and Japs - those were legal.

IMO that p.o.s. should be dug up, tried for treason, shot in the skull, then his bones fed to some feral dogs.

[BenLurkin]

When I said "in my lifetime" I should have clarified that FDR was before my time. Sorry.

[newgeezer]

I don't know why Chuck Grassley just doesn't mail copies to his constituents.

Maybe because it's 400 pages? ;O)

I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I read the Cedar Rapids Gazette editorial a week or two ago calling for Tom "Dungheap" Harkin to join with Grassley and demand the report's release in order to show this isn't a partisan witch hunt. The Gazette said something about both Grassley and Harkin being watchdogs in the Senate.

The mere suggestion that Harkin will ever be anything but a partisan hack is truly laughable.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Harkin was in the septic tank cleaning business in Warren County prior to his entering politics.

[okie01]

Practically every conservative organization was being audited.

Along with every one of Clinton's old girl friends...

[okie01]

Harkin was in the septic tank cleaning business in Warren County prior to his entering politics.

If his performance during the impeachment trial is any guide, Harkin is still in the septic tank cleaning business. Neck deep in it...

[originalbuckeye]

And any reporter who dared to ask Hillary about them or any other of Bill's scandals!

[newgeezer]

Harkin was in the septic tank cleaning business in Warren County prior to his entering politics.

That would certainly explain a lot of things.

[Swiss]

I would put money on LBJ, he did almost everything Nixon did without being called on it.

[sageb1]

I just an email off to the managing editor of my local paper asking if he was going to give Hillary a free ride over the next year. I sent him copies of both the WaPo and Washington Times articles and said that our paper's tiny little tucked away pc. on Clinton's fund raising group was unacceptable and that the paper is doing the voters a disservice if it doesn't start giving some attention to Clinton corruption. Sweeney's son was in a fist fight and that rec'd an immense amount of coverage. A fist fight in comparison to fund-raising and IRS fraud? (Not to mention a trail of dead bodies?) I live in eastern upstate NY and I want Clinton out of my state. I wouldn't wish her on anyone else either.

[neverdem]

Clinton Fundraisers Are Fined $35,000 Group Underreported Event in 2000 (They slide again)

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[MNJohnnie]

Where oh where is the Barret Report oh where ho where can it BE????