BARRETT REPORT RELEASED

OIC David Barrett ^ | January 18, 2006 | David Barrett

[reformedliberal]

the public as a whole has demonstrated either an unwillingness or inability to hold the government accountable.

A small percentage are even aware of this investigation. Very few probably even know who Cisneros is and most of those weren't aware of him even at the time. Of those who know/are aware, the fear of attracting IRS displeasure would keep some of them silent. Besides our votes, we have no reliable mechanism for accountability. Factor in vote fraud and the fact that this was an unelected appointee of an administration that behaved like a mafia and it is no wonder at all why no one speaks out or attempts accountability.

Something has to be local and has to affect a lot of people in a large way before enough folks get together and try to counter malfeasance. Even then, you have to be retired and so squeaky clean that you have reasonable belief you can speak out without repercussions. At that point in someone's life, the fact that any one who speaks up will be maligned and lied against is enough to keep even those who could act w/o consequences quiet.

All of the above is a crying shame.

[demkicker]

Please fill us in and give us the synopsis when you can. I just don't have the time or brain stamina to read all of it.

[Rain-maker]

Unless they were in a decade long coma the name David Barrett or Henry Cisneros is no mystery to the public's awareness. Makes you wonder who would admit to not being aware and considers themselves intelligent?

Independent Counsel's investigation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros

David Barrett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barrett

Barrett Cisneros - 127,000 hits
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&q=Barrett+Cisneros&btnG=Search

[Rockitz]

After a thorough reading of the Report it would not be unreasonable to conclude as I have that there was a coverup at high levels of our government and, it appears to have been substantial and coordinated. The question is why?

FileGate - the gift that keeps on giving!

[Personal Responsibility]

I look forward to my Senators, Schumer and Clinton, releasing the entirety of this report to the public.

[ImphClinton]

Download it then read it. It is much eaiser.

That is unless you are on dial up. But even then if you go away and it downloads OK it is eaiser to read.

[fella]

This would be a nice place for a leak to the Times....................................................................................................................., Washington Times, that is.

[Doogle]

...nothing new here folks,move along,same ole same ole,cover up and it will all go away....redacted to a nice fairy tale about misdeeds that will never be accounted for, another nice little package to feed the truth hungry American public.....

[reformedliberal]

Betcha that if you asked random folks on the street, they would come up blank or at the most say the name was familiar, but they can't place it.

I am constantly amazed that during major news events like an earthquake, I'll mention it to people and about half will say they saw it on their AOL homepage or heard it on the top of the hour radio news and that's all they know the very day it happens. The other half says:"What earthquake?"

Way too many folks MAY catch one segment of Headline News and that's it for the day for purposeful news gathering. Are they intelligent? We report, you decide. Do they think they are intelligent and au courant? Sure. Do they say:"I am not political."? Yep.

[airedale]

In the paper this morning I read that it would be illegal for the OIC to leak the redacted parts, but any congress critter can read the full report including the redacted portions and they can if they wish release as much or as little as they want. Of course if they do the DemoRats and their MSM allies will go after them hammer and tong especially if the redacted portions hurt HRC's chances at being President.

I also expect the MSM to try to bury this report as quickly as possible.

[mewzilla]

Thanks!

[jellybean]

Later reading bump

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

This report, in the end, demonstrates the need for public officials to tell the truth and perform honest services.

That verbage cost us about $10M. What a joke.

The fact that this does not always happen is the impetus for institutions like the independent counsels. How this can be accomplished today, in the absence of an Independent Counsel Statute, is a question to shich the public mush demand an effective answer.

It can't.

That's the answer.
123 posted on 01/19/2006 1:05:52 PM EST by mewzilla

Oh, but it can be accomplished, quite readily. The effective answer is bound and gagged and lying on your doorstep:

• The press must insist that public officials to tell the truth and perform honest services.

• The press will do that whenever the administration does not coopt the press politically by actively promoting the press and its political and other interests.

• The interests of the press are in promoting cheap talk - especially the fatuous idea that talk is not cheap.

• Democrats promote those very ideas, Republicans do not.

• Accordingly it is only necessary to elect a Republican administration, and the press will reliably perform the watchdog function of which it incessantly boasts at all times, but delivers only during Republican administrations.

We don't have an Independent Counsel law, but we had an independent counsel nonetheless, did we not? The question is actually, "How do we prevent the election of the party preferred by journalists?"

[coloradan]

The report was funded by the Sharpie Corporation.

[Rain-maker]

Plenty conclude the masses are largely idiots incapable of making correct descisions and parrot the first thing they hear. I have heard it at the country club many times. I still garner some hope that people have/will/would take an interest to things beyond  wiping their butts and feeding their faces.

 

Stupid and unaware is not the road to freedom and never has been, it's slavery.

Study: most college students lack skills
Almost 20% of students pursuing four-year degrees had only basic quantitative skills. For example, the students could not estimate if their car had enough gas to get to the service station. About 30% of two-year students had only basic math skills.
usatoday article

 

I understand your realism, but let's hope it's not a chronic condition that the majority will get dumber over time. I still believe we can overcome this era of stupiditis. As a friend of mine would say, "Wake them all up!"

[litehaus]

"I understand your realism, but let's hope it's not a chronic condition that the majority will get dumber over time."

Who/What breeds faster? You doubt the outcome?

[VOA]

the reason for dems wanting to hide this from us is bacause it
is an alarming indictment of the IRS.

IIRC, that has been a major aspect cited by The Wall Street Journal
in their begging for the release of the report.
These requests for sunshine have appeared occassionally on the
editorial pages of the WSJ for at least the last six months.

[Spunky]

"Well, Congress is entitled to see the entire report. And they can disseminate it. 535 pols. All we need is 1."

I read somewhere that Senator Grassley said he would fight to the end to get the full report out. Maybe everyone should be flooding his office to get the full report and then he can release it.

[Rain-maker]

Who's stupid, congress is saying we all are!

 

They are showing us that we are too stupid to comprehend the Barrett Report in its entirety. They are showing us that we are stupid enough to fund these inquiries that lead to nothing after 11 years and $21 million tax dollars. And they continue to show us that we are stupid enough to keep voting for politicians that treat us as "too stupid".

 

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Publish the Barrett report now
Dec 9, 2005 by Tony Snow

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "No wonder they call us the Stupid Party," said a disgusted Republican operative in Washington. "You've got to wonder what these guys were thinking."..

 

...Republicans negotiators, led by Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-Mich, took the bait. They agreed to keep the public in the dark about the important stuff in exchange for a big, fat nothing. Unbeknownst to Bond and Knollenberg, Barrett shut down his grand juries three years ago. link

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Maybe we are just insanely suicidal, since the rising the tide stupidity will eventually aquire nuclear weapons. So much for accountability and justice cause we are " too stupid".

[Pusomobile]

I wouldn't hold my breath.
All you get from the "congresspersons" is lip service and a nice letter.
I wrote Clinton once on Kosovo and how the administration lied then bombed and he answered me right off--even signed it. LOL!
It looked good but I didn't put too much credence in the letter.
Hell, he even lies in the letters. :-)

Puso