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Posted on 12/09/2005 12:13:01 PM PST by oxcart
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "No wonder they call us the Stupid Party," said a disgusted Republican operative in Washington. "You've got to wonder what these guys were thinking."
At issue was the publication of a report by David Barrett, an independent counsel who has spent the better part of a decade looking into some of the most hair-raising allegations of presidential malfeasance in American history.
Like most independent counsels, Barrett didn't set out on such a mission. He was assigned the duty of looking into whether former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros committed tax fraud in trying to cover up payments to a former mistress.
Yet, as published reports have indicated, he soon discovered that he was onto something much bigger. He found unsettling evidence that Justice Department officials were actively interfering with the probe and even conducting surveillance of Barrett and his office. Worse, there were indications that Team Clinton was using key players at the IRS and Justice to harass, frighten and threaten people who somehow got in the former president's way.
The pattern was set early on, when the White House sicced the FBI on Billy Dale, who had served as the director of the White House Travel Office since the days of John F. Kennedy. They mounted a baseless probe of Dale's finances, while chasing after his daughter, his sister and others. Dale was guilty of holding a job coveted by presidential pal Harry Thomasson. But rather than simply firing Dale, the Clinton White House chose to destroy him.
The 400-page Barrett report is a bombshell, capable possibly of wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential prospects. At the very least, it would bring to public attention a scandal that would make the Valerie Plame affair vanish into comical insignificance.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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This is a duplicate thread. Afraid I beat you to it by a few minutes.
You might want to ping the rest of the "Snow" bunnies to this thread...... :-)
--my bet is on "look the other way"--
Ok A.Q. you got me!
If this report attacked republicans, we wouldn't be having this conversation, because the report would already be published in the New York Times (at least the most damaging parts).
Of course, if WE leaked it, the story would be all about the evil people leaking stuff, not what was in the report.
Folks its like sreaming into a hurricane. Go home. Im afraid this one has been flushed by the cabal.
Same thing happened to me. I posted my first thread some time ago (a Thomas Sowell column) and was promptly locked out because I'd started a duplicate thread. It's not always easy to figure out if something's already been posted!
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And .. if anybody has been paying attention, this is the report Hillary's lawyers have been trying to have redacted - especially those names of people who are not Cisneros.
This is also the same report which Kerry and Dorgan tried to have DE-FUNDED - so it would not be printed and distributed, by adding an amendment to an appropriations bill - expecting Bush to sign it. However, Tony made such a stink about it - the committee removed the amendment before it reached the WH.
Tony said he was told of some of the items in this report - and it's very, very damaging to the democrats.
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