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)

ILLEGAL GUNS: CONGRESS' JOB by CHARLES SCHUMER & HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

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[MNJohnnie]

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

[Baynative]

Is there anything we can do about getting the Barrett Report released or subpoened - anything to stop the permanent supression of all or part of the report?

With the Congress on vacation there is no one to talk to. How can we fight ???

Injunction, lawsuits, riot in the street...

[Unicorn]

BTTT

[freema]

BARRETT BUMP

[freema]

BARRETT BUMP

[StarFan]

"If Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had his way, the unredacted report might get out. His committee has oversight of the IRS and he thought a month or so back that he had the agreement of the three-judge panel overseeing Mr. Barrett to allow him to receive the unredacted report and make it public for the citizenry to see.

Unfortunately, Democrats on the Hill, led by Sens. Byron Dorgan and Dick Durbin, and Rep. Henry Waxman, have thwarted Mr. Grassley's wishes by late-night legislative subterfuge. They were assisted in this project by two easily confused Republicans, Sen. Kit Bond and Rep. Joe Knollenberg. Now the 120 pages of the report that outline illegal behavior by the IRS and Justice Department during the Clinton administration will be suppressed unless the investigative journalists Mr. Safire hopes for get to work on the Jan. 19 release. Of course, Republican leaders Bill Frist in the Senate and Denny Hastert in the House could weigh in, too."

Perhaps if we deluge them with e-mails demanding they release an unredacted report,it may let them know we're watching.

[doug from upland]

This coverup is unbelievable. This cannot stand.

[Mia T]

 

bump.

let's deluge them with email and calls. It's hard to believe those two republicans were snookered. Certainly the lack of action on the part of the GOP leaders in the House and the Senate doesn't pass the smell test.

The problem is the professional politician. We've really got to get rid of the careerist in DC. Entrenched power and corruption aside, they are a mediocre lot.

The only real swing vote, the vote missus clinton MUST get to have any chance of winning, is the white woman. That demographic will NEVER vote for her if it is fully informed about:

1. the clintons' RAPES AND PREDATION
   
2. the clintons' ABUSE OF THE IRS
   
3. the clintons' ABJECT FAILURE TO CONFRONT TERRORISM
   
4. and this, nuclear proliferation as policy, if you can believe it. (The alternative explanation for the wholesale release of our nuclear secrets, no less moronic, is far less benign.)

 

For more than a half decade, the Clinton administration was shoveling atomic secrets out the door as fast as it could, literally by the ton. Millions of previously classified ideas and documents relating to nuclear arms were released to all comers, including China's bomb makers.

William J. Broad
Spying Isn't the Only Way to Learn About Nukes,
The New York Times, May 30, 1999

Broad would have us believe we are watching "Being There" and not "The Manchurian Candidate." His argument is superficially appealing as most reasonable people would conclude that it requires the simplemindedness of a Chauncy Gardener (in "Being There") to reason that instructing China and a motley assortment of terrorist nations on how to beef up their atom bombs and how not to omit the "key steps" when building hydrogen bombs would somehow blunt and not stimulate their appetites for bigger and better bombs and a higher position in the power food chain.

But it is Broad's failure to fully connect the dots -- clinton's wholesale release of atomic secrets, decades of Chinese money sluicing into clinton's campaigns, clinton's pushing of the test ban treaty, clinton's concomitant sale of supercomputers, and clinton's noxious legacy -- that blows his argument to smithereens and reduces his piece to just another clinton apologia by The New York Times.

But even a Times apologia cannot save clinton from the gallows. Clinton can be both an absolute (albeit postmodern) moron and a traitor. The strict liability Gump-ism, "Treason is as treason does" applies.

The idea that an individual can be convicted of the crime of treason only if there is treasonous intent or *mens rea* runs contrary to the concept of strict liability crimes. That doctrine (Park v United States, (1974) 421 US 658,668) established the principle of 'strict liability' or 'liability without fault' in certain criminal cases, usually involving crimes which endanger the public welfare.

Calling his position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty "an historic milestone," (if he must say so himself) clinton believed that if he could get China to sign it, he would go down in history as the savior of mankind. This was 11 August 1995.

Mia T, 2.11.04
BUSH, THE CLINTONS + WMD PROLIFERATION:
The REAL "Imminent Threat"

HIROSHIMA'S NUCLEAR LESSON
bill clinton is no Harry Truman

 

DETAILS (Note, especially, what Harold Ickes said about the election of '04.)
(WHY HILLARY MUST NOT WIN. WHY HILLARY CANNOT WIN)

When it comes to electing our first female president, we can do better than Hillary Clinton. We need to do better than Hillary Clinton, or the symbolism of a woman as president will be marred by electing a woman who has done almost as much to inflict mistreatment on real-life women as her misogynist husband.

Candice Jackson
Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine

 

December 7, 1941+64

Dear Concerned Americans,

Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive. We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the enemy in Iraq and elsewhere, but do we have the will?

In particular, do we have the will to identify and defeat the enemy in our midst?

Answerable to no one, heir apparent in her own mind, self-serving in the extreme, Hillary Clinton incarnates this insidious new threat to our survival.

What we decide to do about Missus Clinton will tell us much about what awaits us in these perilous new times.

EXCERPT
COMPLETE LETTER

AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO
RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton
Mia T
December 7, 1941+64

IT TAKES A CLINTON TO RAZE A COUNTRY
by Mia T, 11.14.05

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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2005

[StarFan]

This coverup is unbelievable

What makes this one any worse than the many others they've gotten away with? Still waiting for our local news to report that her Senatorial Committee paid a fine for the Peter Paul gala. You'd think the people of New York have a right to know doncha?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[BARLF]

confused Republican, Sen. Kit Bond

My Senator.

[p23185]

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

Well of course because it will hurt them. When a leak hurts the RATs then you go after the leaker and couldn't care less for whistle blower status. When a leaker hurts America (e.g. disclosing national secrets) then you go after Bush for his evil doing, and the leaker becomes a whistle blower rather than a leaker. Whistle blowers are heroes for the RATS and MSM. All makes perfect sense in a hypocritical way.