Posted on 04/21/2005 11:14:33 AM PDT by 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.
It would not have cost a nickel if only the world would have allowed me to proclaim widely and with certainty the Slick Willie and his cronies are corrupt bastards unworthy of holding public office. That goes for his wife, too.
Her laughably thin veneer of centrism will be exposed at each and every turn. That is, if she can keep out of jail...
Judicial Watch is still on the Clinton Scent.
The Fox and the Snake
Bill =and= Hillary
THE Enemy
Within
Oh. And they should all be locked up, too.
How about a team of volunteers? Tax payers coming in to do work for free? (since we paid for this!)
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How is that for a hydra! :)
ROFL! Glad you didn't have a good nap. That gave me a good laugh!
bump!
Don't know if this has any relation to our previous subject. Clinton's first notorious action after taking office was to replace (fire) all federal prosecutors and appoint a do nothing Attorney General. Whence an investigation into corruption or improprieties arose, special prosecutors were needed.
Clinton's obstruction tactics were that of a mob shyster in control of the Justice Dept.
That the Executive Branch controls Justice and the military investigative services is a national security problem when a corrupt executive is in charge, is a situation that invites disaster. And it did; and it probably will continue until we clean house of that era's appointees and cronies.
It is obligatory that America be sh-t on by the Clintons? Why? By Mao? By Stalin? By Bin Laddie? By N. Korea? By Mexixo? You can bet the MSM won't squawk.
Oh, I didn't mean use it now. We will all wait until we know more.
Than we all make a stink. :)
Ping. The Clinton apparatus is working overtime to bury this.
You know that if Kerry's Col. Klink gambit fails and the Pubs strip that language out of the bill, you can read between the lines and figure out that since Cisnero is safe at Univision now, and his reputation is already (rightfully) trashed, Hillary! -- aided and abetted by her MSM friends -- will just throw him under the bus again as sufficient distraction from the final report.
BUMP!!!
(Please keep bumping this.)
The scumbags MUST NOT get away with killing the report.
Our post last night, I was referencing the past, not the Clinton Admin. I just saw the reference about security clearance and pinged you.
Did you see the post about where the amendment was hidden?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1388341/posts?page=59#59
SURPRISE!!! Typical 'Rat behavior.
Here's another bump.
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HILLARY & Terrorism's plan to regain the White House
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022571/posts
...and the End Result;
911 Remembered: RICK RESCORLA was a Soldier
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/978534/posts
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