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The Cisneros case isn't closed Sunday, January 29, 2006 WASHINGTON For eight years, Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno manipulated and frustrated the laws of the United States. In 1993, 74 law-abiding citizens, including their children, died in Waco, Texas, on her orders. Nine months earlier, at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, Randy Weaver's son and wife were killed by men following her commands. Perhaps, with a sense of what is appropriate, Janet Reno last week was the distinguished lecturer at the University of Iowa speaking on the urgent need for death-penalty reform in the United States.Snip During their time in the White...

(bill + hillary) CLINTON CULTURE OF CORRUPTIONby Mia T, 01.28.06 "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-droppin'.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on behalf of a government that left...

Murtha predicts an Iraq pullout by year's end By DAvid M. Brown TRIBUNE-REVIEW ..Murtha reiterated his call for a "redeployment" of American troops, including a sharp troop reduction and relocation of all American forces to "periphery" areas such as Kuwait or possibly Okinawa, Japan. "We can't win it militarily. That's the key," he said...

ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARYTHE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT by Chris Matthews, Anne Kornblut + Dana Milbank (with annotations by Mia T), 01.26.06 EXCERPT: This is HARDBALL on MSNBC. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [NOTE: My comments in blue.] MATTHEWS:  We're back with Anne Kornblut of "The New York Times" and Dana Milbank of "The Washington Post."  Let's talk about Gotham's candidates for president. First, Rudolph Giuliani, the pro-choice, pro-gay rights, former mayor spent today, or the day in Orlando speaking to a conference of Evangelicals.  Dana, he's up to it, isn't he?  This is below the radar.  This...

Find a spine Wednesday, January 25, 2006 By challenging the intestinal fortitude of the Republicans in Congress, independent counsel David Barrett might force them to grow a spine. Mr. Barrett's 10-year, $22 million, 474-page investigation into one of the most sordid subplots of the Clinton administration should help them to do so quickly. Mr. Barrett says his report -- the investigation of disgraced former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros and how the Clinton administration might have obstructed it -- could be titled "What We Were Prevented From Investigating." And since 120 pages are redacted, an accurate subtitle would be "And What...

SEE VIDEO: "HILLARY IS 'DOOMED'" (more 'plantation' fallout)   thanx to John Lenin for video MISS HILLARY, 'PLANTATION QUEEN,' CANNOT DIS KING WITH IMPUNITY by Mia T, 01.24.06 (scoop by John Lenin, video capture by adamsjas ) "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."  Dr. Martin Luther King, JrTHE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?clinton legacy of lynching update by Mia T, 7.23.05 Ironically, the logic of this pronouncement by Martin Luther King would, in short order, be refuted by the reality of...

MISS HILLARY, 'PLANTATION QUEEN,' CANNOT DIS KING WITH IMPUNITY by Mia T, 01.24.06 (scoop by John Lenin, video capture by adamsjas ) "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."  Dr. Martin Luther King, JrTHE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?clinton legacy of lynching update by Mia T, 7.23.05 GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)by Mia T, 01.18.06     Transcript of Fox News' Cavuto on Business show with Meredith Whitney and Herman Cain, January 21, 2006 NEIL CAVUTO (host): All right, we're...

An independent counsel has issued a report claiming that officials of the Clinton administration blocked his investigation into allegations of tax violations by former housing secretary Henry Cisneros. Although these sensational charges have been trumpeted by partisans as evidence of Democratic corruption, they are completely false. I know; I was there. The independent counsel, David Barrett, was appointed to investigate charges that Cisneros had lied about payments he made to his mistress. (After investigating this charge for several years, Barrett meekly allowed Cisneros to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge with a promise of no jail time.)

The last of the Clinton-era independent counsels, David Barrett, was finally allowed to release his report this week. And while the revelations aren't earth-shattering, the report reminds us why we don't miss the 1990s. The Barrett probe began because former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros lied to the FBI during a background check about alleged hush payments to a mistress. Mr. Cisneros pleaded guilty to that offense in 1999, and President Clinton eventually pardoned him. But Mr. Barrett also gathered evidence that Mr. Cisneros didn't report the money for those payments as taxable income. Mr. Barrett alleges that his attempts to...

Full Report on Clinton Years Is Sought by GOP Senators BY BRIAN McGUIRE - Staff Reporter of the Sun January 20, 2006 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/26218 WASHINGTON - Republican senators are puzzling over how to ensure full release of a long-awaited independent counsel's report that alleges obstruction at the highest levels of the Clinton administration but which omits by court order a large narrative chunk that some conservatives think could be damaging to the former first lady, Senator Clinton. The New York Sun reported exclusively on Monday that a 10-year probe by independent counsel David Barrett into allegations of tax fraud by...

WASHINGTON -- There was some last-minute drama in Washington before yesterday's release of the long-awaited report by Independent Counsel David Barrett. Sources close to the three-judge panel overseeing the report say that the panel's members were furious about leaks to the press previewing the report's contents. The report, detailing an organized attempt by Clinton administration officials to shut down an Internal Revenue Service investigation into possible tax violations by President Bill Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development Henry Cisneros, was to be released at 9:00 a.m. Thursday. The day before, late in the afternoon, word went out from the...

       Tony Snow is back and better than ever!  Tony's guests and topics on today's Tony Snow Show include: Put Up or Shut Up Tony suggested that the House and Senate have a vote on who supports fighting the war on terror using any means necessary and who doesn't. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) thinks that's a great idea, and he'll join Tony to talk about it. Release the Report The US District Court has locked up portions of the Barrett Report, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pretty steamed about it. He'll tell Tony exactly what he's...

Reporting the Report By Published 1/20/2006 12:09:31 AM   WASHINGTON -- There was some last-minute drama in Washington before yesterday's release of the long-awaited report by Independent Counsel David Barrett. Sources close to the three-judge panel overseeing the report say that the panel's members were furious about leaks to the press previewing the report's contents. The report, detailing an organized attempt by Clinton Administration officials to shut down an Internal Revenue Service investigation into possible tax violations by President Bill Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development Henry Cisneros, was to be released at 9:00 AM Thursday. The day...

Mark Kilmer || 19 Jan 2006 09:27 pm The AP on the Barrett Report The Associated Press allowed a piece to cross its wire which which deals primarily with the allegations contained in the Barrett Report that Clinton Administration officials obstructed justice in David Barrett’s probe of former Clinton HUD Sec. Hank Cisneros’s tax games and their rejection by those thusly accused.It is a relatively balanced approach, unlike the New York Times’ polemic against the report, the special prosecutor, the expense of the report, and the notion of special prosecutors who investigate Democrats.The last paragraph reveals a curiosity: Barrett’s...

REDACTION LOOPHOLE: ACCESS TO THE BARRETT REPORT   by Mia T, 01.20.06     he judges who ostensibly redacted 120 pages of the Barrett report established a means by which the American people can see those redactions: Any member of Congress can legally request access to the redactions and can publish them.. The serious '"culture of corruption" in the clinton DOJ and IRS that is detailed by the report makes one wonder about the nature of the crimes and abuse that the clintons felt compelled to redact. Even a small subset of what we do know about the redactions...

~snip~ The decision by the lawyers, working under former Attorney General John Ashcroft, was disclosed in the final report of the independent prosecutor, David M. Barrett, which was issued Thursday. Mr. Barrett's investigation of Mr. Cisneros, the longest independent counsel inquiry in history, concluded that there was a possible cover-up by Clinton administration officials at the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service. ~snip~ "Barrett's allegations of a cover-up are nothing short of laughable, given that the Bush administration was in charge for the majority of his investigation, and it's clear he's simply making excuses to justify his expensive and...

What don't David Kendall, the law firm of Williams & Connolly, and clients such as Hillary Rodham Clinton want the public to know? We'd have thought that question would be on more Washington lips as the report of Independent Counsel David Barrett languishes under seal at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Barrett is the fellow who began investigating a tax-fraud case involving former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros but expanded his probe to include alleged abuses by the Clinton Justice Department and IRS. Yet instead of exhibiting any curiosity, the press corps is again writing its...

Barrett charges Clinton team with Cisneros-probe cover-up Makes public final report with sarcastic title: 'What we were prevented from investigating' -------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 19, 2006 3:12 p.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com David M. Barrett, the independent counsel charged with investigating wrongdoings of Bill Clinton Cabinet Secretary Henry Cisneros, released his final report today, saying the ex-president's administration successfully prevented him from getting to the truth. Said Barrett in a press release: "This has been a long and difficult investigation. It is my hope that people will read the entire report and draw their own conclusions. An accurate title for the...

GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder) by Mia T, 01.18.06           "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-dropping.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on...

WASHINGTON - The independent counsel who investigated former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros charged in his final report Thursday that the Clinton administration thwarted his work, drawing the curtain on the longest-ever probe under a post-Watergate era reform law. Officials who worked in the Clinton administration flatly deny the allegations by prosecutor David M. Barrett, who closed a decade-long probe with a report detailing a behind-the-scenes battle inside the government as he tried to look into possible tax violations by Cisneros. Cisneros, who was housing secretary during the Clinton administration, pleaded guilty in 1999 to a misdemeanor of lying to the...