Posted on 11/12/2005 5:36:17 PM PST by wagglebee
A three-judge panel overseeing Independent Counsel David Barrett's investigation into abuses by the Internal Revenue Service under the Clinton administration has ordered Barrett to make "discrete deletions" is the draft he submitted 15 months ago.
The deletion order "has stoked speculation that [it] has more to do with the next presidential campaign," reports the Wall Street Journal, noting widespread rumors that "the draft report contains information potentially embarrassing to another Clinton administration figure, former first lady and current New York Sen. Hillary Clinton."
"The one Clinton official rumored to be implicated in the report is former IRS Commissioner Margaret Richardson, a friend of the former first lady," the paper said.
The Clintons' lawfirm Williams & Connolly has reportedly filed numerous motions with the court in a bid to trim the report and stall its publication.
According to the Journal: "The judges agreed with [individuals named in the report] that some deletions were needed 'to protect extremely confidential information.' They also told Mr. Barrett to omit one section before publishing the report, but to include that material with the report to congressional leaders of both parties."
The section at issue is said to cover "investigations of alleged obstructions of justice and tax-related matters."
In 1997, then Commissioner Richardson denied allegations that her agency had targeted Clinton scandal witnesses and administration critics, despite ample evidence of selective scrutiny.
Clinton accusers Bill Dale, Gennifer Flowers, Elizabeth Ward Gracen and Juanita Broaddrick were all audited during the 1990s. Paula Jones, whose sexual harassment lawsuit led to Mr. Clinton's impeachment, was both audited and had her confidential tax returns leaked to the media.
Adding to the appearance of a massive abuse of power, conservative organizations like the National Rifle Association, the Heritage Foundation, and the Freedom Alliance were also slapped with audits during the Clinton years.
Reports last April on the Barrett investigation said his report zeroed in on Richardson's involvement. But a source familiar with the prosecutor's unedited draft told the Journal she isn't mentioned by name.
The paper said that congressional Republicans cried foul earlier this week over the plan to censor Barrett's report, proposing an amendment to an annual spending bill to release it without any deletions.
For his part, Mr. Barrett will only say: "When, and if, the report becomes known, people will understand more than they do now."
Got to disagree. The efforts these two demonstrate means someone is challenging the status quo. If we assume that this is all for naught, then your premise is correct.
I on the other hand am a clinton hater !!!
Hillary will go nuts. Arkancides will be fashionable again
Any relation to"Duwe" "Screwem" and "How"
bump
Never, ever, not ever...in fact they will be in the White House again...prolly....because there are more people in government protecting their a$$es than protecting the current POTUS!
I wonder who nominated the 3 judges that made this ruling?
So then, you DON'T think there is some kind of shadow government and its all scripted.. to make it LOOK like the democrats and republicans are at each other throats, EH!...
AND privately between themselves at cocktail partys THEY LAUGH AT US... Like, "Can you believe that THOSE fools cannot notice that a democrat and a RINO are the SAME THING".. then hee haw like donkey with a mouse up its A$$.
There are a whole bunch of us out here! We just have to keep hammering against the Clinton lies. Giving up now, facilitates the "plan" for resuming executive control of our government. We can't let this happen w/o a fight!
I know JUST who we should get to do it----F. Lee Levin.
He has been filing suits against those idiots down here in Texas that are trying to railroad Tom DeLay...
I am sure he would...darn, Tony Snow is going on the "disabled list" for about 3 weeks and he promised he was going to keep this out in the open and keep us informed.
Maybe he can do somethings from home as he recuperates from surgery...
"When are these hillbilly criminals going to get the prison sentences they deserve?"
EXACTLY.....When is this going to happen?
Very astute observations.
WHOA!!!!!!! Great idea......Laura in '08!!
LOL!! Oh! My sides are hurting from laughing so hard! LOL!! Good one!!
Did you see this?
Well, we and they are the LITTLE people. We are the citizens, the voters, but we don't actually matter. The elites will let us know what we need to know, if it suits them and not otherwise.
I did. I sent it to Peter Paul already. This cannot stand, and the GOP had better try to do something about it.
WTF?
I miss Ashcroft...
Is shaping the outcome of a President Election by a court, legal?
The scumbag Democrats like to "leak"? Okay, somebody on OUR side better show the scumbag Democrats how to really "leak".
The paper said that congressional Republicans cried foul earlier this week over the plan to censor Barrett's report, proposing an amendment to an annual spending bill to release it without any deletions.
I agree, Doug. There better be a lot more coming from the Republicans than "crying foul".
I'm sick up to here with "crying foul". Friggin' DO something.
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