Posted on 10/03/2005 3:48:07 AM PDT by jimbo123
WASHINGTON - The independent counsel investigation that led to the conviction of a former Clinton administration housing chief could come back to haunt Sen. Hillary Clinton. The Daily News has learned that lawyers are fighting to suppress a potentially embarrassing final report from the probe that found Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros lied to the FBI about paying $250,000 in hush money to his ex-mistress.
Cisneros paid a $10,000 fine after he was found guilty in 1999 and was later pardoned by Bill Clinton. And though neither Hillary Clinton nor her husband was targeted by independent counsel David Barrett, his 420-page final report sent to a special court 13 months ago will include alleged abuses of power by his administration, sources told The News.
After Cisneros was convicted, Barrett started looking into allegations that the IRS and Justice Department aides stymied a tax fraud case against the disgraced Housing and Urban Development secretary and audited Clinton critics.
Ex-IRS Commissioner Peggy Richardson, who remains a close friend of the Clintons, is among the officials cited in the report, sources said.
Lawyers at the Washington firm Williams and Connolly who work for Cisnero and both Clintons have argued to judges overseeing the case that allegations of illegal activity, for which no charges were filed, should be snipped before the report is made public.
The court secretly granted another delay last month, a source said.
Barrett refused to comment on the case, but told The News that he's eager to wrap things up.
"The report was filed over a year ago, but there are still matters ... that have to be resolved by the judges before they decide when it can be published," he said. "The decision rests entirely with the court."
In April, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) tried to ax the probe - which has cost $22 million, including $1 million for the first six months of this year - by cutting Barrett's budget, saying it's a waste of money, but Republicans stopped them.
Williams and Connolly has since tried to quash the report, which probably would be released amid Clinton's 2006 Senate reelection bid.
Clinton lawyer David Kendall declined comment.
I've added appropriate keywords to the thread so that it can be located.
That won't do any good. It's in the hands of the panel of judges at the Special Division of the D.C. District Court.
The Independent Counsel statute gives people mentioned in the report the right to rebut the findings of the report. But I don't recall that it gives anyone the right to supress the report.
The important thing is to keep funding for Barrett's investigation continued.
Poking around -
http://www.oic.gov/smaltz/ - "You don't have permission to access /smaltz/ on this server."
http://www.oic.gov/notsmaltz/ - "The requested URL /notsmaltz/ was not found on this server."
http://www.oic.gov/barrett/ - "You don't have permission to access /barrett/ on this server."
So the report could be sitting on that server right now.
Perhaps a computer technician who is skilled in the ways of accessing Apache servers could get it.
http://www.oic.gov/barrett/homepage.htm - "You don't have permission to access /barrett/homepage.htm on this server."
Yes, someone at Williams and Connelly is panicking right now.
http://www.oic.gov/BARRETT/FnlRpt.htm - "You don't have permission to access /BARRETT/FnlRpt.htm on this server."
We shall see.
Wow, there is a treasure trove of information about criminal activity in Clinton administration on that server - Ron Brown, Henry Cisneros, Michael Espy, Bruce Babbitt, etc.
So Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray used that server too. Interesting. But it's not the same server they used for their public web pages.
a later read
I suspect Mia T has already published this on FR.
Need info ping.
The ruling elite will have their way and short of a 2nd Ammendment solution, there ain't a damned thing we can do about it.
The ruling elite will have their way and short of a 2nd Ammendment solution, there ain't a damned thing we can do about it.
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We were given a Republic "if we could keep it"
As you noted, Roccus, We have a "ruling elite" AND IT AIN'T US!!!!!!!!!!
dang!
You don't have permission to access /public_barrett on this server.
There seems to be an awful lot of interesting files on this server.....
I was able to access the documents.
Try using the "cache" function of google results.
A somewhat smoking gun, buried iin the data;
"2. Investigation by the Department of Justice
On April 25, 1994, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), under the direction of DOJ's Public Integrity Section, initiated an investigation into the matters OIG had referred. The investigation differed from a typical Department of Justice investigation. It was narrowly focused, compulsory process was not used to obtain documents and testimony, and agents were specifically instructed to limit their inquiries. The Public Integrity lawyers instructed the agents to be concerned only about the "receipt of tickets." There was no apparent reason for so limiting the investigation and for not invoking normal investigative techniques and procedures. The Independent Counsel Statute, which limits the scope of preliminary DOJ inquiries, in particular prohibiting the use of compulsory process, was not then in effect, but DOJ nevertheless adhered to the statute's restrictions. (13)"
This would lead us to think there was some damage control attempt, from on high. An order to limit the investigation to only "reciept of tickets"???
The Hildabeast, up to her usual damage-control, political spin. They wanted it to be about "tickets". They knew the ties to Tyson, if followed to their logical ends, would show
bought & paid for cronyism, and wthe trail would eventually lead more directly and personally to themselves (Shrillary and her husband, the manipulator/liar-in-chief)
The left screams at alledged appearances of impropiety of the current administration. Perhaps rightfully so...
But they blew it. They could have made an example out of Bill, of what SHOULD happen, when you act the whore, and sell out the people.
...This URL may be of interest:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oic.gov
I am ashamed and feel like throwing up....but I agree with Kerry, Durbin, & Dorgan. It is a waste of money...because NOTHING will happen of any consequence to the perps.
If you can have a body dragged to Fort Marcy Park...have a Commerce Sec. disappear...cat's killed...Webster Hubbell roll over one more time and watch Sandy Burglar get his hand slapped.....NOTHING!! is going to happen...and it IS...a big show..and a waste of money. May as well pour that money into a septic tank....for all the good it will do.
Well, for 23,000,000. I think we should at least get a peek.
Maybe Bill O'Reilly can get this report released. Sounds like it is explosive. No wonder the Clintons don't want us to see it.
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