Dems try to kill Clinton probe

NY Daily News ^ | JAMES GORDON MEEK

[Republican Red]

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are quietly trying to kill a 10-year legal probe that implicates several senior Clinton administration appointees for obstruction of justice, the Daily News has learned.

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.

But two sources close to the investigation said that if the legislation becomes law, it will thwart Barrett from making public a final report that names senior officials in the Clinton Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service who allegedly buried a tax fraud case involving former cabinet member Henry Cisneros.

"It's about obstruction of justice," said one of the sources. "People are willing to take drastic actions to kill this report."

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), who introduced the amendment with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), said last week that the disgraced HUD secretary paid a $10,000 fine in 1999 for lying to the FBI and that then-President Bill Clinton pardoned Cisneros, so the probe "should have ended years ago."

Barrett's probe began in 1995 by looking into allegations that Cisneros, who was Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, lied to the FBI about payments to his mistress. It expanded years ago into a broader obstruction case involving alleged tax fraud, according to the sources.

The report will allege that Justice Department officials snuffed out a tax case against Cisneros and that the IRS sometimes audited Clinton critics without good cause.

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.

[yoe]

I sent it to Power Line - they are pretty good about letting you know what, when and if they are interested.
Thanks

[CyberAnt]

Well .. thank you!! Hopefully they will be able to look into this for us.

[Bombardier]

I love seeing the words "probe" and "Clinton" in the same sentence.

I get a sick picture in my head when I hear the words "probe" and "Clinton" in the same sentence.....ICK!!!

[hipaatwo]

The dems had to have a bill they were positive Bush would not veto.



Can he use a line item veto?

[CyberAnt]

No! But .. since there is both a senate and a House version - it will go to a committee where they will try to put one bill together from both of them.

At that time - the House can say - NO TO THE AMENDMENT. Since DeLay is in charge there - I'd say the chances might be pretty good to get rid of the amendment.

If we all make enough stink - maybe we can get that dang amendment off the bill.

We're waiting to hear from PowerLine about if this is where the amendment is and what's happening with it.

[caddie]

This is Clinton's 'Third Legacy'.

:^)

[garyhope]

There used to be a bar in LA named "Probe". It was a gay bar. Excuse me if I didn't want to go there.

All I could think of was my prostrate exam at my urologist and I never found that quite thrilling if not the exact opposite.

[garyhope]

I thought with the Clin toons, it is or was, what is "is" is or was or is, not waht.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

"I love seeing the words "probe" and "Clinton" in the same sentence."

 

Yeah, I just wish he was bending over when we hear of it. LOL

[PhilDragoo]

We should fully fund the publication in rich Moroccan leather binding of the Medusneros Brief:

[cloud8]

> Can you please outline and cite examples for your claim that Bill Clinton and his administration were "...the most corrupt administration in history." I'm just curious. I'm new around here.

Just about to graduate from 6th grade, eh? Go to the library and read, kid.

> I read both sides. They think Clinton is a god. Y'all think he is the worst person on the face of the earth, or at least in American history. So, how come?

[Jalapeno]

The Bloggers ae going to have a field day with this if the funding is "cut". The report is lready written, it just needs to get into the right person's hands....

Remember what happened in Canada just a few weeks back.

[Just A Nobody]

"Don't you think the report should be made public?"

ABSOFRICKINTUTLY

[ru4liberty]

Downside Legacy at Two Degrees of Bill Clinton

[cloud8]

> How about Ol'-I-Should-have-gotten-five-years-for-STEALING-classified-Clinton-era-documents-for $1000, please, Alex.

If you mean Pantload Berger, he hasn't been sentenced yet only a plea bargain, and supposedly the investigation into who at the archives called whom when he stole 'em is still ongoing. At least I sure hope so.

[Burlem]

I just know Judy Woodward of CNN will be discussing this.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Investigations of Willie's crimes will eventually get to where he received Iraqi oil voucher money and will tie Willie into the connection between OBL/9-11 and Iraq/Saddam. If there was corruption in the late '90s, Hillie and Willie were involved!!

You mean....the Clinton's might have facilitated 9/11??? I'm shocked!!!

NIX TO BLIX: ...The second has been the failure to implement Congress's Iraq Liberation Act - which was supposed to fund the overthrow of the dictator by native opposition groups. President Bill Clinton signed the 1998 act which was supposed to invest $97 million in this project. Apparently only $20,000 has been disbursed to the opposition groups - enough to buy some basic office supplies. The London office of the Iraqi National Congress, the main democratic opposition group, shut down at the end of last year...

[Calpernia]

This is why all of that 'Kill Bush' garbage is coming out in T shirts and Net postings. The Clinton's and others are going to be exposed!

We need some cartoonists to make Bush and Cheney as cowboys and bringing in the Dems in the last round up!

I'm loving justice!

[Allosaurs_r_us]

"The funds went to some very obscure Netherland Antilles corporation with accounts in Panama and Isle of man. The stock holders are all obscure nobodies except Chelsa Clinton."

 

Or perhaps they were funneled into the Clintoon Library and Massage Parlor as it has already been established they will not have to disclose where any of the $400 million came from for the most expensive house trailer on the planet.

[Michael.SF.]

Welcome to Free Republic. Stick around and you will learn a lot more here then you do at DU. Before I answer your question, some translations are in order:

Can you please outline and cite examples...Translation: I am too lazy to do my own research.

for your claim...Translation: for your incorrect belief

that Bill Clinton and his administration were...Translation: I sure do miss him

"...the most corrupt administration in history." ...Translation: I can't believe you F'n Freeper's are ignoring Tricky Dick!!!

I'm just curious. ...Translation: I am just trying to see who falls for this trolling stunt

I'm new around here....Translation: I am a Troll

I read both sides....Translation: And believe one, laugh at the other.

They think Clinton is a god. ...Translation: As do I.

Y'all think he is the worst person on the face of the earth,...Translation: I can try and talk redneck to be like the rest of Y'all

or at least in American history. So, how come?...Translation: I don't know WTFIATA.

So try this as a partial answer:

CLINTON ADMINISTRATION CRIME STATS

- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122