Posted on 10/08/2005 10:34:23 AM PDT by doug from upland
"Will do."
Another FReeper willing to take action and not just sit around and talk! THANKS!
And thanks to all the rest who are doing likewise--and to those who are joining the ping list via FReepmail. It's definitely accelerating in growth!
Pellicano Tapes Could Spell Trouble for Bill and Hillary
Though the American press insists on not reporting this inconvenient detail, Anthony Pellicano was first hired by Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1992 in a bid to discredit Gennifer Flowers' steamy tape recordings of conversations with Mr. Clinton. As noted in Ron Kessler's 1995 best seller, "Inside the White House," "The Clinton camp made much of the fact that Anthony J. Pellicano, an expert on audio recording analysis, had told the press that a twelve-minute portion of the tape of conversations between Flowers and Clinton had been 'selectively edited' at two points."
If Hillary has nothing to hide why has her lawyer David Kendell filed so many motions and appeals to delay and/or stop this report?
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Williams & Connolly–which represents many prominent Democrats, including Mr. Cisneros–had filed more than 190 motions and appeals, one of which alone took 18 months to deal with. Now we are told that yet another secret delay order has been granted by the court. What’s more, Williams & Connolly’s Mr. Kendall–who as far as anyone knows represents not Mr. Cisneros but Mrs. Clinton–has been among those spotted at the courthouse reviewing the IC’s report.
http://tinyurl.com/exouq
Cover Up???
By Tony Snow
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Hil's lawyers try to quash old report
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
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.
Originally published on October 3, 2005
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Sen. Graham said he sympathized with those who may have been targeted with bogus audits, telling (Tony) Snow, "I was involved in impeachment. I can tell you what it's like to be involved on the receiving end of some of this."
"We're told the Barrett report will be an eye-opener," the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Ms. Richardson and Mrs. Clinton go back to their days together at Yale Law School. Richardson served on the Clintons' transition team in 1992 before being appointed to head up the IRS.
Before leaving the post in 1997, Richardson denied that her agency had launched politically targeted audits, calling the allegations "inaccurate," "misleading," and "unfounded."
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DAVID SHUSTER, FOX NEWS: Senior staff working for Attorney General Janet Reno have threatened to fire an independent counsel investigating a possible cover-up at the Justice Department, Fox News has learned. Independent Counsel Dave Barrett led the investigation of former Clinton housing secretary Henry Cisneros, who admitted lying to the FBI. According to sources, for the last 10 months Barrett has been presenting his grand jury with new evidence alleging that officials at the Justice Department improperly tried to influence actions by the Internal Revenue Service. Barrett was warned by senior Justice Department officials to halt his investigation . . . During his investigation, Barrett uncovered evidence of possible tax fraud by Cisneros. But Justice Department officials, along with the IRS, said that aspect of the Cisneros record was beyond the independent counsel's jurisdiction. After looking at the evidence themselves, the Justice Department and IRS both refused to pursue the matter.
According to well-placed sources, last year a top lawyer within the IRS alleged that senior Justice Department officials were attempting to protect Cisneros. The IRS employee, who is now a whistleblower for the independent counsel, has reportedly testified that justice officials pressured the IRS in other cases as well. FOX NEWS
Wake up, Doug ---- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not Theodore.
More Clinton butt covering by the Washington Compost...
These so called reporters are either scared to death of the Clintons (especially Hillary) or they don't want the AMERICAN PEOPLE to see this report WE PAID FOR!
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Cisneros Convicted in '99, But the Probe Goes On
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 1, 2005; Page A01
This spring, Republicans and Democrats voiced outrage over the news that independent counsel David M. Barrett was still pursuing a decade-long, $21 million investigation into a crime long confessed and paid for. Without debate, the Senate unanimously agreed to strip Barrett of further funding for his inquiry on former housing secretary Henry G. Cisneros.
But, prodded by conservative commentators, House Republican leaders grew convinced that Democrats were trying to suppress embarrassing revelations about the Clinton administration. The Senate provision was ditched behind closed doors, and Barrett and his staff continue to work -- at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $2 million a year -- on an inquiry that seemingly ended 13 months ago.
http://tinyurl.com/ckxr3
Good post. Yes, it was totally phony that the Flowers tapes were edited. The Clintons and everyone around them knew it. The Clintons used $17,000 of matching federal funds in 1992 for PIs to go after and threaten women.
Great info. Thanks.
Yes and NOT ONE Congressman went to look at the evidence!
I know the implications of Hillary in the White House. I'm worried about Paul and company's integrity. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, only goes so far...
Me too.
slicker than eel snot ......... and even less appealing
BUMP
I appreciate DFU's coverage but you're correct. This is SOP for the Clinton mafia and their ideological supporters.
BTTT!
Exactly. I picked up my (very soggy) Sunday inserts this morning and took the magazine to the crapper with me. The so-called investigative piece was so fluffy, I could have used it as toilet paper.
Unlike some, I lay no such claim to fame.
Anybody wonder why Hillary hasn't made a peep about Tom DeLay's indictments?
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