... the image in the morning news perpetually on my wish list ...
Posted on 03/07/2006 7:23:21 AM PST by rellimpank
Lost in the tumult over Islamic port deals and Katrina video capers is the recently released -- and willfully ignored -- Barrett Report. David Barrett, you'll recall, is the independent counsel appointed in 1995 to investigate allegations of impropriety against President Clinton's Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros. Mr. Barrett found his path mined by the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and President Clinton's attorneys, even after Mr. Clinton departed the White House. He prepared 18 felony indictments against Mr. Cisneros but had to settle for a guilty plea on a misdemeanor charge (lying to the FBI about his mistress, a poor choice for a tax write-off). He sought to prosecute Mr. Cisneros for tax fraud over a period of years but was thwarted by Attorney General Janet Reno. Ultimately Mr. Cisneros resigned his post, whereupon President Clinton, constitutionally bound to men who lie about their mistresses, pardoned him.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
I have't .. though some Dems in Congress want us to forget
Hmmmm. . . .
Not to mention he has been an unregistered agent for foreign nations over the last 6+ years....
Not just the Dems. My critter's a Pubbie, and still hasn't gotten back to me after I called about it weeks ago. Grrrrr....
Hmmm... is right.
...napping with Ruthie, no doubt.
Rich Lowry has a book out titled "Legacy" - about Bent Willie, but I don't know anything further.
Best if it comes out in October. March is too early. (Hee hee.)
... the image in the morning news perpetually on my wish list ...
its stark moral relativism that duke over 8 years when cisneros got nothing. These people keep just keep giving.
Is Tony Snow the only talk show host covering this in depth?
If you can say that while writing this article, never mind the subject matter of which you write.....I just don't get it.
THEN NOTHING!
I have been writing and calling every republican member in both the house and senate (I have no representation as a Washington State resident). Something is troubling here. How could it be that not a single member out of 535 will stand up for our right to see the report we have funded?
Could it be the Clintons have put the message out for everyone to drop this?
How ?
A Clinton story for you!
BTTT
Something stinks. It's way past time to get the full story out. The spineless GOPers are starting to disgust me. It should not be the President who has to do everything. He's got wars to fight and needs to stay above this, but congressmen don't.
This is not unlike something David Shippers wrote about Hillary Clinton.
Congress is a cesspool. Both houses. Both parties.
My congress critter is Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) and I called his office 3 times and noone there knew what the hell I was talking about. I told them and even went to his office in Savannah and then his aide called me from D.C. and told how to "find the report on the internet". I told her I knew that part of the report was available but that I wanted to see the redacted portions too. Kingston's office isn't up to speed on this and I have the idea that he won't do anything at all to get it released either. What a bad joke on all the American people this is. The really sad part to me is that Kingston is #5 on the Republican hierarchy list. If Kingston doesn't get his act together and get this report released in its' entirety, I'll never vote for him again! I told his office that too.
Whussup here?
How ?
Might the Clintons have files on everyone ala Hoover ?
Mr. Barrett found his path mined by the Justice Department the Internal Revenue Service and President Clinton's attorneys, even after Mr. Clinton departed the White House.
Which is why nests of 'rats should be cleaned out ASAP when a new administration takes over.
"Could it be the Clintons have put the message out for everyone to drop this?
How?"
I can give you 900 FBI file reasons why this will never see the light of day.
Thanks for the ping!
And let's not forget what the author of this article seems to have forgotten...this was accomplished with a little help from their Republican friends, the "duped" and not deserving of their office due to "pathetic stupidity" as it has been spun by "our team." Let's not let Kit Bond and Congressman Knollinger off the hook even if they were only doing the bidding of their Republican higher-ups. Plus --let's not forget this-- We were told that ANY congressman or senator could ask for the release of the 120 pp and VOILA! we would get to see those pages. Well, I haven't seen them and neither have you because there isn't one single Republican with the cajones to buck the party and ask to see the stuff, mainly because they know what's in there, i.e. they are just as dirty at using the IRS against their enemies as the Democrats are. Just my guess.
Amen. Both parties do the cover up thing; political operatives do not have the common good in mind when they do their sordid thing.
Right On! Right On! This corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" will continually shove us true conservatives overboard & this will never stop unless conservatives stand up & votes outside of the cartel. Again, what's different between these two factions? These two, bought & paid for by the elites, pols did their duty & the voters will forget about it next election & walk like the sheeple they are & vote them back in.
We were told that ANY congressman or senator could ask for the release of the 120 pp and VOILA! we would get to see those pages.
Well maybe they want to wait until closer to 2008. Why release now when it will be old news in a month or so. It is the same arguments that we give on the port situation where nobody will vote on way or the other because of the ports because it is so far away. I am a bit confused about what Hillary did directly in the Barrett Report that would cause her any problems. Can someone please explain to me (yes I am a bit thick) because when this comes out I don't want people to say well it was just her husband not her so no big deal. You know how MSM is. If this does not cause bombs going off with Hillary's name on them then I just wonder how this will help defeat her. thank you.
We were told that ANY congressman or senator could ask for the release of the 120 pp and VOILA! we would get to see those pages.
Well maybe they want to wait until closer to 2008. Why release now when it will be old news in a month or so. It is the same arguments that we give on the port situation where nobody will vote on way or the other because of the ports because it is so far away. I am a bit confused about what Hillary did directly in the Barrett Report that would cause her any problems. Can someone please explain to me (yes I am a bit thick) because when this comes out I don't want people to say well it was just her husband not her so no big deal. You know how MSM is. If this does not cause bombs going off with Hillary's name on them then I just wonder how this will help defeat her. thank you.
Thanks. How can I possibly keep up with all she has done is her quest for absolute power.
I hope you have a lot of file space, because there is no end to what she will do.
I just sent my Senator, Kit Bond, a scathing email...I don't expect to hear back from him.
I've often thought that a factual documentary of the lives and careers of the Clintons would make a fascinating couple of hours viewing. And it wouldn't require the cut-and-paste editing that characterizes Michael Moore's documentary-style fiction films he creates to support a conclusion rather than arrive at one.
Of course, it would be difficult to gather the facts from the Clintons' partners in crime--many have shown no qualms about lying for them and some have already demonstrated the willingness to do time to protect them-- and it would be impossible to interview those who have already been Arkanicized to protect them--not to mention that it would be very dangerous to the health and welfare of the film makers and their families.
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REDACTION LOOPHOLE: ACCESS TO THE BARRETT REPORT
The way it works: Any member of Congress can see the redactions simply by requesting access, and, unlike Barrett, can publish the redactions "without fear of legal sanction."1 The serious '"culture of corruption" in the clinton DOJ and IRS detailed by the Barrett report makes one wonder about the nature of the crimes and abuse that the clintons felt compelled to redact....
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Thanks for checking in. So it's easier for the NYT to publish the Pentagon Papers than it is to get the re-dacted pages on the internet?
Absolutely.
I have come to the conclusion that if McCain had instead of running hard on Bush's left back in 2000...had instead run on his right, and ridiculed Bush on all of his softpedaling...concessions over the Xlintons...challenging over whether anyone was ABOVE the law...and what Bush REALLY thought the Xlintons had done with their stewardship...Get in public rather than swept under the rug.
If GWB had then talked instead about moving on, and bipartisan healing, etc. and more obfuscatory evasions...a stalwart conservative attack would have been LETHAL.
Hey -Washington FReepers
It seems the entire congress has joined the effort to keep American citizens from seeing the entire BARRETT REPORT. How about we mount a little effort to call Dave Reichert's office since he wasn't around when Hillary lifted all those files that have so many politicians cowering in the corner?
Could it really be that the Bushes and Clintons have bonded? I believe so.
BTTT!
That one is GOOD!
I love your inclusion of our sleepy justice. ;o)
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/politics.html
Enjoy!
I can't wait for 08! largest landslide in the history of the nation, and Hillary won't be jumping for joy this time!!
Taking on the Clintons is as dangerous as printing cartoons about muhammed.
A pretty astute analogy, IMO.
Good way to put it.
Another example of
the DC mutual protection racket writ large.
We've got to get rid of the careerist.
The founders had the right idea:
the citizen politician,
not the corrupt mediocrity
that is the professional pol.
You apparently don't need to worry about the Barrett Report any longer. I wrote an e-mail to my Senator, Ron Wyden (D-OR), to complain about the suppressed information in the report. He wrote me back and in his letter, dated January 19, 2006, stated, "At one point, it was uncertain whether the entire Barrett Report would be made available to the public; however, the judicial panel that oversees these matters has since ordered its full disclosure".
Sometimes I think EVERYBODY in Washington DC has a skeleton in their closet and has to 'toe the line'! Disgusting.
Thanks for the ping Baynative.
Your Blackhawk Bill is new! Justice Ginsburg has to be embarrassed about that. I don't think anything phases the Clintons.
Now, when will any Republican have the guts to reveal the redacted information?
(I am giving them the benefit of the doubt - - for now - - and presuming that it comes down to election year timing.
I suppose the citizens of this country are going to have to put term limitations on the ballot!
Get rid of these public fund sucking suckers once and for all.
We can start with any member that has served longer than two terms, they can all go home and get a job! I hear Wall-Mart is hiring all over the cuntry.
Once we have a real citizen congress, then they can begin to clean out the rest of the perma-fund-my-ass programs the imbedded have voted for themselves!
And we have got to get the monopoly of Attorneys creating law, arguing law, and judging law out of the hands of attorneys! Lets elect some business and just plain people into the house that creates law. Maybe then some of them will actually make some sense.
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