Last Independent Counsel Report Set For 'Release'; Focus On Clinton Administration

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[wagglebee]

In Monday's edition of the NEW YORK SUN, reporter Brian McGuire and contributor R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., break the first look at the long-anticipated report from Independent Counsel David Barrett, whose investigation lasted 10 year and cost taxpayers $23 million.

The SUN outlines the report's details surrounding the alleged illicit activity and cover up that involving former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros before and during his time in the Clinton Administration.

The Sun reveals that the Barrett report connects the dots that allege that senior officials of the Clinton Administration hindered investigations by the IRS in both Texas and Washington, as well as the investigations of a grand jury examining the independent counsel's evidence.

The full report, more than 400 pages line, with more than 100 pages of redacted material, hits the street on Thursday morning at 9 am.

Democrats in the House and Senate have been fighting for months to block the release of the report and keep the 100 pages of highly damaging redacted material from ever seeing the light of day.

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[ChildOfThe60s]

What I really hope is exposed is the Clinton administration tactic of using the IRS to harass anyone who got in their way, and the manipulation of Reno's pathetic "Justice" Dept.

I think what you really mean is "officially" exposed. There's nothing here that well read conservatives out here in the hinterlands don't already know. Or practically everyone of both parties inside the beltway.

However BC will never get his just rewards in this lifetime. It's time we all acknowledged that. Our job is to stop Hillary and let God mete out justice to Bill.

A-The spineless pubbies have done their usual and "stood up to" the DIMs by grabbing their own ankles (redacting the 100 pages)
B-Even if the 100 pages were released, it would be so poo pooed by the MSM that no one that doesn't already know and believe it would take it seriously anyway.
C-For its own reasons, I believe that the Bush administration has and will put the kabosh on any serious legal action against Bill or Hillary. Why? Although I diasagree, I think they are concerned that it would boomerang and martyr-ize the Clintons.

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[Txsleuth]

This sounds like a job for Mark Levin's group..to get a FOIA paper submitted...

[Txsleuth]

ping a ling..

[K-oneTexas]

Funny you should post this. I sent emails to both my senators (Kay Bailey Hutchinson and John Cornyn) as well as my representative (Michael McCaul).

The funny thing is I got that same email back, word for word. From John Cornyn, over a week after I sent it. The other two did not respond. Small world. I would think the form letter/email was made for this specific purpose. Most likely our inquiry/input was not even read.

[Shortstop7]

Go Tony! I hope he comes through.......

This should be very interesting!

[Shortstop7]

We spent 23 MILLION for this? OMG.........

[Txsleuth]

I hate to say this...because I am a hugh Cornyn fan...and I HAVE received snail mail that couldn't have been a form letter from him....

But, I also received that same e-mail response to my request for the release of the Barrett Report....

The good news is...there must be a LOT of people e-mailing him...if he has made a "form response"...and surely that means he will be cognizant of the report's release...and make sure that we the people get the chance to read all of it..

[Humidston]

I couldn't have said it any better myself.

YOU NAILED IT.

[Mia T]

EXACTLY bump!

We must get rid of the professional politician in DC.

[mississippi red-neck]

Yep. this what happens every time we let these people in Washington investigate themselves or pick a so called independent consul to do so.

All they do is slam a lid on the boiling kettle and see that their sons,daughters,nieces and nephews etc, get a steady taxpayer paycheck for years of paper pushing.

After a while when the heat dies down and it no longer really matters, and people forget all about the scandal, then like this one ten years later they show up with nothing.

I figure this U.N. oil scandal ought to be good for a number of years and a hundred million or so.

Watch what doesn't happen and how much it costs .

No proof, no jail time, no money recovered, no names for certain, looks like even no job loss for Annan just billions gone and dead Iraqi children from no medicine and American soldiers from the arms sold to Saddam.

[gakrak]

Barrett report ping.

[saveliberty]

:-( Edited report, it would seem

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

With 1/4 of it being redacted, it's probably useless.

[kittymyrib]

Bet no one leaks those 100 pages of juicy material to the NYT or Newsweak. They want to live.

[mathluv]

If Cornyn had a form letter, that implies the need for one. There must be a lot of us writing in. Kay will usually send a response - by snail mail - several weeks later.

[mathluv]

Weren't the redactions ordered by a judge?

[ChildOfThe60s]

Truthfully, I can't say. I just remember reading several weeks ago something to the effect that invertebrate pubbies had delayed the release in some sort of "grab your ankles" deal with the DIMs, and that they were making an arrangement to omit a sizable portion of the report from the release. So, my assumption was that the pubbies are responsible. As is usually the case when some sort of capitulation is involved.

[mathluv]

I either read that on here, or heard it on Tony's show, or Rush's.