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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With the Dems claiming the Abramhoff scandal will be the end of the Republicans, 2006 seems like a PERFECT time for the release of this... ;)
Sending something similar this evening, and re-sending every day for a week.
I was just thinking the other day about the scandal with that teacher at Warren County Community College, John Daly. He threatened a conservative student, Rebecca Beach, and said that true freedom would come when soldiers in Iraq murdered their commanding officers. That guy lost his job because the college recieved tens of thousands of emails and phone calls telling them to do the right thing... many, perhaps a great many of those calls and emails came from people on this site. Each communique, no matter how brief, had an impact. We took a stand on something important, we spread the word, and we made a difference...
Free Republic... the very name of this organization embodies justice. This is HUGE NEWS everyone... this report will SINK Billy J. Clinton, it will BURN Hillary Clinton, and it will end the careers of who knows how many democrats. I hope that any member reading this thread will write, call, or email your congressional and senatorial reps, as well as Sen. Charles Grassley, and strongly urge them to support the release of this report. Spread the word! The American public, and the principles of the United States, deserve that it see the light of day.
Barbie and Dianna. < puke alert! >
That's a huge undertaking...Cisneros is all ass. I am still mad about the Alamodome BS. Git a rope!
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.
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What else could there be that some here at FR have already been all over for years? :-o
What "rights" do the larsonous or the treasonous have, anyway?
A small gift right before the 2006 elections?
BTTT
Sigh...I believe it was reported last week that some "Republicans" assisted with the squelching. I cannot recall who though, sorry.
$#%#@@$##&**$#!!
Just "leak" it to the press. The press loves "leaks."
Yea, but the MSM doesn't report leaks against Dems.
Kit Bond and Jon Kyl, I believe.
Possibly this report will be leaked, but it will not be published. Isn't it obvious why? Some key Republican players are being blackmailed. That's why those 900 FBI files on Republicans were illegally held in the Clinton White House - a great source for blackmail material.
But, Republicans control congress. If they wanted to, they could pass a law giving immunity to Congressmen for information brought forth about their past activities in order to influence their votes.
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