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.
Okay - gotcha!!
Who is this "they", newbie?
I agree! :)
If she covers up that ass,
then she won't be in bare assed!
It's going to be tough, but with enough
fabric... she CAN do it!!
Some people are still trying to figure out if
Hillary is evil!
If it takes forever, I say lets keep on trying
to convince them.
And if it takes forever to catch the Slick Clintons
and their Comrades, so be it!
But, "soon" would be a good idea, especially sometime
**before** 2008!
Berger was quite the stuffed shirt type.
Hey, that's a great challenge!!
"What would you give up so Hillary Clinton will just go away and NEVER attempt public office again?"
I wonder how much that would be worth to the Average Joe?
INVESTIGATE THE CLINTONS.
INVESTIGATE THEIR FASCINATION WITH ALL THINGS RELATIVE TO CHINA AND SEE WHAT "THE CAT BRINGS IN."
THE CLINTONS WERE BAD NEWS FOR (US) NATIONAL SECURITY.
see post 59
Maybe they should just post the report as a .pdf and ping the world. Once it is out, there would be no putting the genie back in the bottle.
But as I've said before...."Get Rich!"
You must have a big head.
I thought you were replying to THIS one! :)
(see post 224)
Bump
Not to continue to be a wet blanket, I would like to see this report issued too, but volunteer services are valued and would be considered an augmentation also (as would any time spent by a Federal employee providing access, coordinating volunteers, providing office space, etc.) These are not trivial issues to those involved because they can be disciplined, fired, or charged with conversion of governmental assets.
Maybe a leaked copy if it can't be traced? Or as I said earlier, a straight up defeat of the Amendment, if our representatives are worth anything.
....Or perhaps they were funneled into the Clintoon Library .....
Good thought.
I'm behind the times in my thinking. The money has been filtered and cleansed and sanitized and brought home to the safety of corrupt Arkansas
AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
To prohibit the continuation of the independent counsel investigation of Henry Cisneros past June 1, 2005 and request an accounting of costs from GAO.
TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS SUBMITTED: CR S3598-3599
STATUS:
COSPONSORS(2):
Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] - 4/14/2005
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 4/18/2005
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