Posted on 12/26/2005 7:33:16 PM PST by ncountylee
Bipartisan congressional negotiators squelch independent counsel's findings
Though it has had scant attention from the mainstream media, a bipartisan effort to squelch an independent counsel's final report on Clinton-era abuse of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department has gotten the attention of Web activists and commentators, causing a growing call for the release of the document that is said to including damning evidence against the 42nd president and his administration.
Over 10 years ago, independent counsel David Barrett was charged with investigating former Clinton Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros in relation to his lying to the FBI about tax fraud he committed trying to cover up payments to a mistress. Though Cisneros pleaded guilty in 1999, Barrett, in the course of his probe, found evidence of wrongdoing within the IRS and Justice Department in relation to the Cisneros fraud.
Reportedly, Clinton team members tried to interfere with Barrett's investigation, which has cost $21 million, including conducting surveillance of his office.
An IRS whistleblower told Barrett, a Republican, of a cover-up surrounding the Cisneros matter.
Writes columnist Robert Novak: "The informant said a regional IRS official had formulated a new rule enabling him to transfer an investigation of Cisneros to Washington to be buried by the Justice Department. Barrett's investigators found Lee Radek, head of Justice's public integrity office, determined to protect President Bill Clinton."
Columnist Emmett Tyrrell, who has called for the release of the entire Barrett report, writes:
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Big business.
As much as I respect, admire and hunger for the concept and application of frontier justice, I'll settle for the full and complete report.
Hadn't you noticed? The only leaks that occur are those which are damaging to Republicans.
I'll say that I'm fairly happy with Drudge. Sometimes I'll get peeved, but I think the guy is very fair.
I just sent him the FR link to this story and will note with interest whether he covers it or not.
Big business.
Like the proverbial Commie claim that they'd sell us the rope with which we'll hang ourselves, perhaps "big business" won't mind if we purchase the pitchforks and shovels patriots would use to bury them.
Yep. The MSM doesn't want it. the Dims don't want it. And like Able Danger, Bush and the establishment Republicans don't want it. DOA.
And, just like the Narnia movie, the MSM won't publish anything that might be good news for conservative values!
Hillary IS the white witch - it's always WINTER and NEVER Christmas!
Any legal eagles out there, no SOL (statute of limitations) on IRS criminal violations, right?
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...A BILL CLINTON that was on the side of our terrorist enemy, Communist North Vietnam Dictator HO CHI MINH during the Vietnam War,
...refused 3 Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to give us our new terrorist enemy OSAMA bin LADEN on a silver platter before he could hit us hard here at home =
9/11 Lifesaving Hero RICK RESCORLA, R.I.P.
http://www.RickRescorla.com
http://www.strategyzoneonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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I want to see the entire report: we paid for it!
In don't know about all of that. But it's fairly clear that the establishment will never go after big government for MAJOR malfeasance, especially when a Democrat is culpatble. Oh yes, there are many distractions. Bread and circuses and all.
We've gotten to the point where we actually SEE proof that yet another pol is crooked and that we're being played. Yet it happens, over and over. They continue to kick us in the teeth.
What will it take before Americans rise up and say "ENOUGH!"
/rhetorical
Gee, I hope you didn't bet any money on it. Did you promise similar revelations during the Travel Office scandal, Whitewater, the Vince Foster investigation, Chinagate, the Lewinsky affair and Pardongate (to name but a few)?
I'd have to ask my standard..."And how's that workin' for ya?"
If you hate W, it could look like that. When was the last time he posted a story favorable to this admin? Most of his postings are tabloid, so they don't count either way. But the political ones are usually leftist.
n don't know about all of that. But it's fairly clear that the establishment will never go after big government for MAJOR malfeasance, especially when a Democrat is culpable. Oh yes, there are many distractions. Bread and circuses and all.
Has the potential to stop the beast cold!
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Just like the Sandy Berger classified pants scandal?
I want to see the entire unredacted Barrett report.
I mean it. I want to see it. If this "goes away" like Able Danger, like the Rockefeller memo, like the 900 FBI files, like all the other hellish corrupt scandals of the past few years, I'm not going to be able to hold myself back from taking whatever is the most drastic action I can conceive of within the law.
The entire, unredacted Barrett report had better come out. Soon.
Remember who stole the FBI files and probably, most likely, made copies of them?
HRC is using her political blackmail on this one. That so-called woman will stop at nothing to slam her counterparts and those who are closest to her.
She cannot be trusted.
She is as fake as a football bat.
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