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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.

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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