Posted on 01/20/2006 3:31:45 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Full Report on Clinton Years Is Sought by GOP Senators
BY BRIAN McGUIRE - Staff Reporter of the Sun January 20, 2006 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/26218
WASHINGTON - Republican senators are puzzling over how to ensure full release of a long-awaited independent counsel's report that alleges obstruction at the highest levels of the Clinton administration but which omits by court order a large narrative chunk that some conservatives think could be damaging to the former first lady, Senator Clinton.
The New York Sun reported exclusively on Monday that a 10-year probe by independent counsel David Barrett into allegations of tax fraud by a former housing secretary under President Clinton, Henry Cisneros, would culminate in a report alleging a coordinated effort to obstruct the investigation by Clinton administration officials who were looking to protect Mr. Cisneros.
Mr. Barrett's final report, which was released yesterday, confirmed that the second half of the investigation was complicated by a former chief of the public integrity section of the Department of Justice, Lee Radek, and a former assistant chief counsel for criminal tax matters at the IRS, Barry Finkelstein. It also implicated a former attorney general, Janet Reno.
"After a thorough reading of the report, it would not be unreasonable to conclude, as I have, that there was a cover-up at high levels of our government, and it appears to have been substantial and coordinated," Mr. Barrett's office said in a statement issued with the report.
Democrats have cast the $21 million investigation as a waste of time and funds, citing it as the best evidence yet that the independent counsel statute that expired seven years ago squandered taxpayer money. And Messrs. Radek and Finkelstein hotly reject the claims against them in an appendix to the report.
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great idea bump!
1/28/06 bump
:...or otherwise made to diasappear by somebody."
Or otherwise made some bodies disappear. ;)
I loathe those two, but I fear any damage from this is wishful thinking on our parts. :(
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