Posted on 12/15/2005 6:57:18 AM PST by george76
The last remaining U.S. independent counsel, David Barrett, after spending $21 million over 10 years, on Jan. 12 finally will close down his investigation of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' lying to FBI investigators about hush money paid to an ex-mistress.
The political significance is that the Barrett report's shocking allegations of high-level corruption in the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department are likely to be concealed from the public and from Congress.
A recently passed appropriations bill, intended to permit release of this report, was altered behind closed doors to ensure that its politically combustible elements never saw the light of day.
But if that happens, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley will still try to force its release.
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee with oversight of the IRS, he wants the first real investigation of the tax agency.
That investigation would be a long walk into the unknown, with possibly far-reaching consequences.
Prominent Democrats in Congress have spent much of the last decade in a campaign, successful so far, to suppress Barrett's report.
Its disclosures could dig deeply into concealed scandals of the Clinton administration.
These vital considerations, not the mere continuation of a $58-an-hour independent counsel position, is why Republican lawyer Barrett for a decade would not close down his prosecutor's office.
...Sen. Carl Levin, Sen. Byron Dorgan and Rep. Henry Waxman.
At the same time, the powerhouse Washington law firm of Williams & Connolly -- representing not only Cisneros but also the Clintons --
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I bet a dollar to a doughnut hole the Republicans let them get away with it.
The stupid party always gives in to the evil party.
Just "leak" it to the press. The press loves "leaks."
Have the person who "leaks" call himself 'Deepthroat' and have him meet the Washington Post reporters in a dark, DC parking garage. He'll be smoking, wearing a rain coat.
It will make for a great movie one day!
The final language authorized the judges "to protect the rights of any individual named" in the report.
With M.A.D. the watchword in D.C. nothing will come of this.
They'll put it in the archives, sealed for fifty years, like all the other Clinton evidence.
Thanks China Ken.
I am breathlessly awaiting for Chris Wallace, Tim Russert, George Stephanoplous and Bob Schieffer to demand this Sunday that this report be made public. The people have a right to know! Come on guys.
The press?
It's filled with America hating lefties like Deadwood and Bumstain.
Not a drop would get past them to the public.
Maybe we could contract Sandy Berger to smuggle out some of the report's documents.
Carl Levin should be hanged. The guy is a despicable, treasonous coward.
You'll be breathless all right.
The report might be enough to stop the beast.
With all the efforts to stop it by the Clintonistas, there must be a lot of there there.
Where is the "elite" media ?
If it were anti-Republican, we would see coverage.
Have Jamie Gorelick and the rest of the 9/11 Commission look into this! All they want is the truth to come out!
This, the legacy of the Clinton administration who promised Americans they would be the most ethical administration ever.
I want the Barrett Report made public. If the media can wage a campaign against the present White House based on innuendo, rumor, and gossip, the public deserves to see a document which can be given some credit for being factual.
Post reporters would burn the report, not publish it
Have Jamie Gorelick and the rest of the 9/11 Commission look into this! All they want is the truth to come out!
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If the STUPID citizenry of this country has not figured it out YET, that the political class of Washington is protecting its miserable self, they deserve everything that Washington keeps doing TO THEM.
It will leak, guaranteed.
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