The revolution has begun.
(Above image courtesy of FReeper CA Schack)
The stonewall with the FEC nominations being held up is likely orchestrated by Hillary and her legal team. The fix is in. Unless something dramatic happens, I am now actively shopping for a bunker in state where I can hide.
You’ll be interested in this...
Free the Barrett Report
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Published 1/5/2006 12:06:19 AM
WASHINGTON — In a very clever year-end column, the venerable William Safire writing in the New York Times asks whether “special prosecutor David Barrett’s 400-page expose of political influence within the Internal Revenue Service and the Clinton Justice Department” will be the government report “most likely to resist investigative reporting” this year. I certainly hope not. The misuse of the IRS and Justice Department has a long record going back to Richard Nixon and Watergate and before that to Franklin Roosevelt and his harassment of former Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon and publisher Moses Annenberg. Wealthy individuals such as Mellon and Annenberg can protect themselves — though Annenberg was cruelly sent to jail. Ordinary citizens cannot, and the way the IRS is set up today not much provocation is necessary to instigate a costly investigation...costly to ordinary taxpayers.
People familiar with the Barrett Report claim that during his investigation of former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, Barrett came across illegal IRS and Justice Department activity in the Clinton years that involved corruption and infringements on the civil liberties of private citizens. A whistle-blower in the IRS, John Filan, delivered up an 18-page blueprint sketching out the illegal activities and perhaps identifying the victims. Sources claim it contains some of the most illuminating revelations of IRS misconduct ever. Lawyers at the Clintons’ ever-reliable Washington firm of Williams and Connolly have bottled the report up since it was finished in August of 2004. Democrats and a couple of incompetent Republicans have seen to it that the report is gutted. This month the gutted report will be made public. The date is January 19. Safire seems to want investigative journalists to get the rest of the report out. Frankly I would like to see our elected legislators on Capitol Hill get the whole, unredacted report out.
If Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had his way, the unredacted report might get out. His committee has oversight of the IRS and he thought a month or so back that he had the agreement of the three-judge panel overseeing Barrett to allow him to receive the unredacted report and make it public for the citizenry to see. Unfortunately Democrats on the Hill led by Senator Byron Dorgan, Senator Dick Durbin, and Congressman Henry Waxman have thwarted Grassley’s wishes by late-night legislative subterfuge. They were assisted in this project by two easily confused Republicans, Senator Kit Bond and Congressman Joe Knollenberg. Now the 120 pages of the report that outline illegal behavior by the IRS and Justice Department during the Clinton Administration will be suppressed unless the investigative journalists Safire hopes for get to work on the January 19 release. Of course Republican leaders Bill Frist and Denny Hastert could weigh in too. They head both houses of Congress.
Just before Christmas one of the perpetrators in the Democrats’ cover up, Senator Durbin, the Minority Whip, boldly asseverated that “We will initiate at the beginning of this year one of the most serious debates and discussions on Capitol Hill in our history about individual rights and liberties.” Well, I suggest that Frist and Hastert hold Durbin to his words. Surely Senator Grassley will be on their side.
This report by Independent Counsel Barrett is the first time in history that the unique powers of an Independent Counsel have been brought to bear on the IRS. With Barrett’s grand jury subpoena power he has, sources familiar with the report say, opened the internal workings of the IRS against private citizens for the first time. For ten years and at a cost of over $20 million to taxpayers Barrett has put together this important report. Surely the taxpayers have a right to see it.
Senator Durbin has declaimed his desire to look into the state of our “individual rights and liberties.” No agency of the federal government has more power to infringe on our rights and liberties than the IRS. Surely Durbin should be held accountable for suppressing this report. There are no legitimate grounds for not publicizing it in its entirety. The reports of every other Independent Counsel have been published in full, save for brief sections containing classified materials. Gutting a report of 120 pages of detailed government wrongdoing goes too far. Are Safire’s investigative reporters ready to pounce? Will Frist and Hastert rise to their responsibilities? Civil libertarians throughout the country should take note, and so should historians.
Same cover-up applies to Sandy Berger and AbleDanger and Barrett and Ron Brown and Stan Lee and China gate....this Clinton disaster is like being tied to the whippin post isn’t it!
The Klintoons are corrupt.
So tell me something I didn’t know.
How can you say this Doug? We were assured by the Rowan and Martin of the press corp (Woodward and Bernstein) that Clinton’s infractions were mere child’s play compared to Nixon’s.
Funny, but I don’t recall Nixon leaving a trail of criminality that lasted some thirty years, included so many counts of infidelity that we lost track, and that included trists in the Oral Office while on the phone with a Congressman from Florida discussing whether troops should be deployed at the same being serviced by an intern.
A number of people dropped dead around Clinton. His council wound up in Fort Marcy park, a bullet to the head with no blood on the ground. Then Clinton abuses one Kathleen Willey in the Oral Office, while her husband offed himself in another park.
If Bill and his wife never see prison time, it will be one of the most flagrant injustices of all time.
Nixon was involved in one scandle with periferal issues. Clinton was involved in upwards of twenty, with periferal issues. Nixon’s staff had one FBI file and Clinton’s had nearly if not more than one thousand.
Nixon’s staff member (Chuck Carlson) was imprisoned for that one file. The Clintons weren’t even ordered to return the FBI files. That’s how far down the road to destruction our nation had traveled in thirty years.
Yes there’s much more, but who could address it all in a short response. The Clintons need to be convicted for at least part of what they have done.
Yup. The ethics truce lives on. From 2006....
Mum's the word for ethics committee
A pox on both parties.
Hi,
Excuse my ignorance of things American but does the public have no recourse to have information released that their Taxpayers dollars paid for.
Mel
I wonder why the word try is in the headline.
The revolution has begun.