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NOTE: According to Mark Goodman, a democrat, (The Barrett report, January 31, 2007): Tony Snow reported that by all accounts the redacted pages contained enough damning evidence to sink Mrs. Clinton's presidential ship. [T]here was a catch to the redaction: Any congressman could secure a copy of the vaulted evidence merely for the asking. An abiding theme in the redacted pages, insiders say, is the Clinton camp practice of using the IRS to punish its enemies. Mr. Clinton plainly did not leave this illegal practice behind in the Oval Office. By all accounts he has maintained a tight grip on a number of government departments and agencies, notably the Justice Department and the IRS, the folks who can deal the deadliest damage. It's a puzzlement: Why would the Republicans sit on a report they think destined to deep-six the presidential campaign of the Democratic front-runner? Alas, there are several unholy answers to that riddle. The first is the cynical theory that we don't really live in a democracy but in a series of autocracies changed at fixed intervals. Thus the inevitable corollary: At the top, power-brokers stick together. And if they have to suffer a Democrat in the White House, who better than Mrs. Clinton, poster girl for moral ambiguity? In that event, it follows, the sequestered pages of the Barrett Report would surely give the Republicans a dandy wild card when upcoming hands are dealt on Capitol Hill. Bluntly put, they'd have Mrs. Clinton at least halfway in their pocket. Goodman misses the obvious, i.e., point 3 and Filegate (as well as point 5) are the Catch-22, the bottom-line reasons why no one--not any congressman, not George W. Bush--will make public the evidence of the clintons' gross abuse of power, their Stalinist methods. That is to say, the clintons' very abuses of power protect the clintons from the exposure of those abuses of power. Is there really no one of courage and integrity left in DC?