since this doesn't concern National Security, shouldn't it fall under the Freedom of Information Act??? the CIA will leak it's own information to try and hurt the President but this will prolly be sealed tighter than a drum.
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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"Just "leak" it to the press. The press loves "leaks."
Tell them it's damaging to the Bush Administration. They'll be on it in a hot second.
>>The press loves "leaks." <<
Not Clinton damaging leaks.
The information in this report would not fit with the MSMDNC 'Republican Culture of Corruption' news template.
If ever we needed a leak....
Sounds like the IRS and the Justice Department were trying to cover Cisneros' hindquarters.
Grassley is my Senator. He is a pit bull when necessary. Don't count him out.
He'll play hardball if he has to,,,,,. I wouldn't want to stand against him if I had some pork in an approriations bill. I think eventually, he'll get what he wants.
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'"
~~ Theodore Roosevelt
"The report is the work of the staff of Independent Counsel David Barrett..."
"All's well, Senator Byron Dorgan of the great state of North Dakota has done come clean. Senator Dorgan is the vice chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee.
In that capacity he accepted $67,000 in contributions from Indian tribes represented by the recently indicted Jack Abramoff, a fabulous fixer here in the capital of the Free World. Abramoff, a Republican, has obviously been an equal-opportunity fixer, and apparently Dorgan was not above accepting his help, though Dorgan claims he never met the rogue and never backed any of his programs knowingly.
Now there is an adverb to contemplate, "knowingly." The senator's aides admit that their boss did advocate some of Abramoff's programs while he was accepting the tribes' contributions, but he did not do so knowingly."
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I forwarded the link to this story to Lancie Dickie of the Seattle Times, who last week wrote a column blasting the IRS for its investigation of the liberal clergyman in California who sermonized against Bush. I agreed with him that that clergyman should be off-limits for the IRS, but I doubt he will give a rip about Clinton-era abuses, or the ongoing coverup.
since this doesn't concern National Security, shouldn't it fall under the Freedom of Information Act??? the CIA will leak it's own information to try and hurt the President but this will prolly be sealed tighter than a drum.
Good to push the media.
They will ignore 99 bad DUmmies but if we, just once, screw up...it will be front page " breaking news" for months.
Although I know you are right, and experience tells me so, this kind of stuff still turns my stomach. Duke Cunningham is a dirtbag who deserves punishment - and so are the scrofulous termites of the Clinton era. Smoke 'em out and send 'em to jail.
I hope so. But the utterly craven behavior of both pubbie and dim senators during the Clinton impeachment (read Schippers's SELLOUT) gives me very little confidence in the spine and substance of any member of "the world's greatest deliberative body."
ABSOLUTELY!! Our tax dollars paid for this investigation & I WANT TO SEE WHAT MY MONEY BOUGHT!!
It's already been reported that there are a couple of (R)s helping to conceal.
Why on Earth does an investigation take 10 freaking years? How come nobody asks that question? I'm so sick of the waste and abuse of those corrupt monsters in Washington. And to all those who want to write me back in shock that I would accuse all politicians of corruption, I say BLOW IT OUT YOUR EAR. The majority are corrupt, the system is corrupt...so everything that comes close to it becomes corrupt.
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