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Beyond the melodrama of Sen. Hillary Clinton's tears-on-her-pillow triumph in New Hampshire and her gaming victory in Nevada lies the profoundly disturbing question of the Clintons' hidden record of suspected crimes. It's that very record which likely prompted Sen. John Kerry's sudden endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama just two days after Mrs. Clinton's first primary win, followed by two more supportive votes from ranking congressional Democrats. Their swift response was a clear sign that ranking Democratic colleagues are determined to derail Mrs. Clinton. Why? Because there exists a vault of information American voters are not aware of concerning the Clintons...

NOTE: It has been suggested that a member of Congress is allowed to view the entire report and give the information to a constituent. Can someone please confirm that? I have asked David Dreier three times to do just that, but he has refused. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Democrats Try to Squelch Report on Clinton-Era Corruption by Robert Novak The last remaining U.S. independent counsel, David Barrett, after spending $21 million over 10 years, on Jan. 12 finally will close down his investigation of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' lying to FBI investigators about hush money paid to an ex-mistress. The political significance...

"After a thorough reading of the report it would not be unreasonable to conclude as I have that there was a cover-up at high levels of our government and, it appears to have been substantial and coordinated...The question is why? And that question regrettably will go unanswered. Unlike some other cover-ups, this one succeeded.” – Independent Counsel David M. Barrett on the censoring of The Barrett Report. If you have been experiencing a sneaking suspicion that there is a lot of one-sided interest where investigations into political malfeasance are concerned at the US Justice Department, you’re not alone. From the...

WOMEN! VOTE 'NO' TO HILLARY CLINTON 'The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.' 1 by Mia T, 03.14.07   HILLARY ON THE COUCH: IS MISSUS CLINTON MENTALLY FIT?by Mia T, 01.05.07 VOTE SMART: A WARNING TO ALL WOMEN ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON(YouTube video--please FReep)by Mia T, 3.11.07 STALINIST RISING?HILLARY CLINTON ABUSE OF POWER(WHERE IS THE UNREDACTED BARRETT REPORT ANYWAY?)by Mia T, 2.07.07 1.(Ursula K. LeGuin) COPYRIGHT MIA T 2007

HILLARY CLINTON = 'GANGSTER POLITICS, DUAL MONARCHY AND THE MORAL CONSISTENCY OF A DOORKNOB': Pat CaddellCLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART FIVE by Mia T, 3.02.07 THE CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO: THE SERIES HILLARY! Can a chintzed-and-powdered villain win the White House?LEADING INDICATORS SAY 'NO'MISSUS CLINTON'S SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PROBLEM - PART FIVECLINTON-GEFFEN IMBOGLIO-PART SIX AL GORE, THE OSCAR, THE NOBEL, THE CLINTONS + DAVID GEFFENCLINTON-GEFFEN IMBOGLIO-PART FOUR HEAR DENNIS MILLER: WHY GEFFEN DUMPED HILLARY,WHY CLINTON 'DOES NOT WANT TO LOCK HORNS WITH DAVID GEFFEN'CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART THREE (video and transcript) CLINTON vs. GORE + GEFFEN: POST-OSCAR ANALYSIS (HAS HOLLYWOOD DUMPED HILLARY?)CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART TWO WHY THE...

WHY THE GEFFEN IMBROGLIO SIGNALS CLINTON'S END'HILLARY'S STRATEGY--NOBODY GETS TO CRITICIZE HER' -- CHRIS MATTHEWS with a WARNING FOR DAVID GEFFEN by Mia T, 2.22.07   hy did hillary clinton take the bait? The answer is actually quite simple: David Geffen's comments to Maureen Dowd topple the clinton machine's extravagant, fanciful and elaborate construction and expose the candidate for what she is: Defective. Fatally defective. How is hillary clinton fatally defective? Let me count the ways: the clintons' documented abuse of power 4 (redacted via clinton abuse of power!) the clintons' terrorism failure 3. the clintons' 1 rape of...

STALINIST RISING? 1HILLARY CLINTON ABUSE OF POWER (WHERE IS THE UNREDACTED BARRETT REPORT ANYWAY?) by Mia T, 2.07.07     Peggy Noonan's excellent piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal is really the story of the death of democracy. At its core it is the description of the human double helix gone terribly awry, of a denatured protein grotesquely twisted, of two mutant, tangled strands of DNA, the basest imaginable of base pairs linked permanently, as firmly as guanine to cytosine, bill inexorably to hillary and conversely, doing what they do best, and doing it relentlessly. Killing. Killing insidiously. Killing...

The bell has just rung on the 2008 presidential sweepstakes and already more entries have crowded into the gates than the American grandstand can count, much less account for. That's all to the good, as the only winners over the past two decades have been named either Bush or Clinton. Still, since nothing less than the fate of the nation seems to be at stake, it is imperative that all candidates be measured... --snip--     Deeply frustrated by nine seasons of blockading by Clinton lawyers and Democratic congressmen, Mr. Barrett issued a statement saying, "An accurate title for the report would...

The head of the National Archives said that most of the thousands of historical documents withdrawn by government agencies because of secrecy claims since 1999 would be made publicly available again. In an update to a group of researchers, Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States, said the secret removal of documents had been virtually “stopped in its tracks.” The Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency, which had withdrawn the largest number of documents, will declassify 95 percent of what they withdrew, though some will still have deletions, Mr. Weinstein said. Archives officials are devising an initiative to streamline...

Coulter did not go far enough Ah, those now famous 28 words. Forget about the once famous "16 words." Ann Coulter has uttered 28 words (not based upon false intelligence) that are all the rage: ''These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities. I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.'' Of course, she was talking about the Dixie Chicks. No, that would be false intelligence. Ann was talking about none other than the Jersey Girls! As you may recall, the Jersey Girls are a group of September...

"As Hillary went from First Lady to an elected representative in 2001, the press blackout of the fraudulent activities surrounding the Hollywood fundraising gala in her behalf stayed largely intact. Most of the exceptions came in the form of smears and attacks upon the man who financed this gala, Peter F. Paul. What follows is an examination of how the media continued with its cover-up after Hillary was sworn in so as not to hinder her chances of becoming the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nominee."

The last remaining U.S. independent counsel, David Barrett, after spending $21 million over 10 years, on Jan. 12 finally will close down his investigation of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' lying to FBI investigators about hush money paid to an ex-mistress. The political significance is that the Barrett report's shocking allegations of high-level corruption in the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department are likely to be concealed from the public and from Congress. A recently passed appropriations bill, intended to permit release of this report, was altered behind closed doors to ensure that its politically combustible elements never saw the...

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...

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...

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." At issue was the publication of a report by David Barrett, an independent counsel who has spent the better part of a decade looking into some of the most hair-raising allegations of presidential malfeasance in American history. Like most independent counsels, Barrett didn't set out on such a mission. He was assigned the duty of looking into whether former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros committed tax fraud in trying to cover...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Senator Hillary Clinton says she's pleased the Bush administration and a United Arab Emirates company have agreed to delay the company's takeover of significant operations at six major American ports. But the New York Democrat says she's still opposed to the deal and plans to introduce legislation that would block Dubai Ports World or any other company owned by a foreign government from operating U-S ports. Clinton said critical infrastructure like ports must be operated by the United States, not foreign-owned companies. She made the comments yesterday in an appearance in Miami Beach. Clinton, who is seen...

I received the following email today - and I want to share it with all of you on FR. Please send this link to all your friends and family - we need to put the pressure on about releasing the Barrett Report: Greetings to the GOPUSA Family of Activists! Please see the message below from our friends at The Center for Individual Freedom and find more about the Barrett Commission. Keep up the fight, Robert R. Eberle, Ph.D. ************************************** The CFIF assessment of the Barrett Report: Did you know a Commission report exists that exposes ugly, festering Democrat corruption at...

February 10, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - "Hillary has become sui generis, now as much a celebrity as a politician," writes Ken Bode of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Writing in today's Indianapolis Star, DePauw's Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism states, "in the opinion of those who set the opening odds for the 2008 Democratic nomination, she is definitely the frontrunner. Sen. Clinton is sure to win easy re-election in November. She is the best-heeled contender, with a savvy, loyal staff and Bill as resident braintruster. That's not a bad start. But the other part of the opening line...

This is the website of the Office of Independent Counsel in the investigation and prosecutions involving matters relating to former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry G. Cisneros. In the latter half of 1994, accusations surfaced that then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry G. Cisneros had made false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") in late 1992 and early 1993, when the agency was conducting a routine background investigation for his appointment and confirmation. The false statements concerned monetary payments he had made to Linda Medlar,1 with whom he had had an extramarital affair in...

Rod Serling was the master of the black and white screen, his sets were superb, and somewhere among his productions I remember a pawn shop. This small inconspicuous establishment featured dusty, almost opaque windows, where all manner of musical instruments hung in plain sight, along with other dim and unidentifiable items.

Did you know a Commission report exists that exposes ugly, festering Democrat corruption at the highest levels of government? Did you know that this report might ruin Hillary Clinton’s chances to run for president and even jeopardize her reelection campaign? Did you know that Democratic Senators Byron Dorgan, Carl Levin, Dick Durbin, John Kerry and Congressman Henry Waxman, with the help of Democratic judges, suppressed key portions of this report? Did you know that the suppressed sections reveal some of the most obscene abuses of power in the history of the presidency? If you’ve never heard of the Barrett Commission...

HILLARY'S EXPOSED LEFT FLANK 'SCARES THE HORSES' (VIDEO) (MISSUS CLINTON SUPPORTS ALITO FILIBUSTER) by Mia T, 01.31.06 ccording to conventional wisdom, missus clinton, owing to exceptional popularity with the Democratic base, (that is to say, with her radical leftist comrades), has the luxury to pose during the primary season as a centrist, as a conservative even, and, at times even as a right-winger more right-wing than your run-of-the-mill redneck right-winger, defying the First Presidential Law of Motion: Lean toward one's extreme during the primary, swing toward the mean during the general election. But as we see, clinton lust for...

The Cisneros case isn't closed Sunday, January 29, 2006 WASHINGTON For eight years, Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno manipulated and frustrated the laws of the United States. In 1993, 74 law-abiding citizens, including their children, died in Waco, Texas, on her orders. Nine months earlier, at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, Randy Weaver's son and wife were killed by men following her commands. Perhaps, with a sense of what is appropriate, Janet Reno last week was the distinguished lecturer at the University of Iowa speaking on the urgent need for death-penalty reform in the United States.Snip During their time in the White...

(bill + hillary) CLINTON CULTURE OF CORRUPTIONby Mia T, 01.28.06 "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-droppin'.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on behalf of a government that left...

Murtha predicts an Iraq pullout by year's end By DAvid M. Brown TRIBUNE-REVIEW ..Murtha reiterated his call for a "redeployment" of American troops, including a sharp troop reduction and relocation of all American forces to "periphery" areas such as Kuwait or possibly Okinawa, Japan. "We can't win it militarily. That's the key," he said...

ON REJIGGING GALLUP'S LOSING NUMBERS FOR HILLARYTHE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF ANNE KORNBLUT by Chris Matthews, Anne Kornblut + Dana Milbank (with annotations by Mia T), 01.26.06 EXCERPT: This is HARDBALL on MSNBC. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [NOTE: My comments in blue.] MATTHEWS:  We're back with Anne Kornblut of "The New York Times" and Dana Milbank of "The Washington Post."  Let's talk about Gotham's candidates for president. First, Rudolph Giuliani, the pro-choice, pro-gay rights, former mayor spent today, or the day in Orlando speaking to a conference of Evangelicals.  Dana, he's up to it, isn't he?  This is below the radar.  This...

Find a spine Wednesday, January 25, 2006 By challenging the intestinal fortitude of the Republicans in Congress, independent counsel David Barrett might force them to grow a spine. Mr. Barrett's 10-year, $22 million, 474-page investigation into one of the most sordid subplots of the Clinton administration should help them to do so quickly. Mr. Barrett says his report -- the investigation of disgraced former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros and how the Clinton administration might have obstructed it -- could be titled "What We Were Prevented From Investigating." And since 120 pages are redacted, an accurate subtitle would be "And What...

SEE VIDEO: "HILLARY IS 'DOOMED'" (more 'plantation' fallout)   thanx to John Lenin for video MISS HILLARY, 'PLANTATION QUEEN,' CANNOT DIS KING WITH IMPUNITY by Mia T, 01.24.06 (scoop by John Lenin, video capture by adamsjas ) "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."  Dr. Martin Luther King, JrTHE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?clinton legacy of lynching update by Mia T, 7.23.05 Ironically, the logic of this pronouncement by Martin Luther King would, in short order, be refuted by the reality of...

MISS HILLARY, 'PLANTATION QUEEN,' CANNOT DIS KING WITH IMPUNITY by Mia T, 01.24.06 (scoop by John Lenin, video capture by adamsjas ) "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."  Dr. Martin Luther King, JrTHE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?clinton legacy of lynching update by Mia T, 7.23.05 GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)by Mia T, 01.18.06     Transcript of Fox News' Cavuto on Business show with Meredith Whitney and Herman Cain, January 21, 2006 NEIL CAVUTO (host): All right, we're...

An independent counsel has issued a report claiming that officials of the Clinton administration blocked his investigation into allegations of tax violations by former housing secretary Henry Cisneros. Although these sensational charges have been trumpeted by partisans as evidence of Democratic corruption, they are completely false. I know; I was there. The independent counsel, David Barrett, was appointed to investigate charges that Cisneros had lied about payments he made to his mistress. (After investigating this charge for several years, Barrett meekly allowed Cisneros to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge with a promise of no jail time.)

The last of the Clinton-era independent counsels, David Barrett, was finally allowed to release his report this week. And while the revelations aren't earth-shattering, the report reminds us why we don't miss the 1990s. The Barrett probe began because former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros lied to the FBI during a background check about alleged hush payments to a mistress. Mr. Cisneros pleaded guilty to that offense in 1999, and President Clinton eventually pardoned him. But Mr. Barrett also gathered evidence that Mr. Cisneros didn't report the money for those payments as taxable income. Mr. Barrett alleges that his attempts to...

Full Report on Clinton Years Is Sought by GOP Senators BY BRIAN McGUIRE - Staff Reporter of the Sun January 20, 2006 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/26218 WASHINGTON - Republican senators are puzzling over how to ensure full release of a long-awaited independent counsel's report that alleges obstruction at the highest levels of the Clinton administration but which omits by court order a large narrative chunk that some conservatives think could be damaging to the former first lady, Senator Clinton. The New York Sun reported exclusively on Monday that a 10-year probe by independent counsel David Barrett into allegations of tax fraud by...

WASHINGTON -- There was some last-minute drama in Washington before yesterday's release of the long-awaited report by Independent Counsel David Barrett. Sources close to the three-judge panel overseeing the report say that the panel's members were furious about leaks to the press previewing the report's contents. The report, detailing an organized attempt by Clinton administration officials to shut down an Internal Revenue Service investigation into possible tax violations by President Bill Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development Henry Cisneros, was to be released at 9:00 a.m. Thursday. The day before, late in the afternoon, word went out from the...

       Tony Snow is back and better than ever!  Tony's guests and topics on today's Tony Snow Show include: Put Up or Shut Up Tony suggested that the House and Senate have a vote on who supports fighting the war on terror using any means necessary and who doesn't. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) thinks that's a great idea, and he'll join Tony to talk about it. Release the Report The US District Court has locked up portions of the Barrett Report, and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pretty steamed about it. He'll tell Tony exactly what he's...

Reporting the Report By Published 1/20/2006 12:09:31 AM   WASHINGTON -- There was some last-minute drama in Washington before yesterday's release of the long-awaited report by Independent Counsel David Barrett. Sources close to the three-judge panel overseeing the report say that the panel's members were furious about leaks to the press previewing the report's contents. The report, detailing an organized attempt by Clinton Administration officials to shut down an Internal Revenue Service investigation into possible tax violations by President Bill Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development Henry Cisneros, was to be released at 9:00 AM Thursday. The day...

Mark Kilmer || 19 Jan 2006 09:27 pm The AP on the Barrett Report The Associated Press allowed a piece to cross its wire which which deals primarily with the allegations contained in the Barrett Report that Clinton Administration officials obstructed justice in David Barrett’s probe of former Clinton HUD Sec. Hank Cisneros’s tax games and their rejection by those thusly accused.It is a relatively balanced approach, unlike the New York Times’ polemic against the report, the special prosecutor, the expense of the report, and the notion of special prosecutors who investigate Democrats.The last paragraph reveals a curiosity: Barrett’s...

REDACTION LOOPHOLE: ACCESS TO THE BARRETT REPORT   by Mia T, 01.20.06     he judges who ostensibly redacted 120 pages of the Barrett report established a means by which the American people can see those redactions: Any member of Congress can legally request access to the redactions and can publish them.. The serious '"culture of corruption" in the clinton DOJ and IRS that is detailed by the report makes one wonder about the nature of the crimes and abuse that the clintons felt compelled to redact. Even a small subset of what we do know about the redactions...

~snip~ The decision by the lawyers, working under former Attorney General John Ashcroft, was disclosed in the final report of the independent prosecutor, David M. Barrett, which was issued Thursday. Mr. Barrett's investigation of Mr. Cisneros, the longest independent counsel inquiry in history, concluded that there was a possible cover-up by Clinton administration officials at the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service. ~snip~ "Barrett's allegations of a cover-up are nothing short of laughable, given that the Bush administration was in charge for the majority of his investigation, and it's clear he's simply making excuses to justify his expensive and...

What don't David Kendall, the law firm of Williams & Connolly, and clients such as Hillary Rodham Clinton want the public to know? We'd have thought that question would be on more Washington lips as the report of Independent Counsel David Barrett languishes under seal at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Barrett is the fellow who began investigating a tax-fraud case involving former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros but expanded his probe to include alleged abuses by the Clinton Justice Department and IRS. Yet instead of exhibiting any curiosity, the press corps is again writing its...

Barrett charges Clinton team with Cisneros-probe cover-up Makes public final report with sarcastic title: 'What we were prevented from investigating' -------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 19, 2006 3:12 p.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com David M. Barrett, the independent counsel charged with investigating wrongdoings of Bill Clinton Cabinet Secretary Henry Cisneros, released his final report today, saying the ex-president's administration successfully prevented him from getting to the truth. Said Barrett in a press release: "This has been a long and difficult investigation. It is my hope that people will read the entire report and draw their own conclusions. An accurate title for the...

GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder) by Mia T, 01.18.06           "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-dropping.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on...

WASHINGTON - The independent counsel who investigated former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros charged in his final report Thursday that the Clinton administration thwarted his work, drawing the curtain on the longest-ever probe under a post-Watergate era reform law. Officials who worked in the Clinton administration flatly deny the allegations by prosecutor David M. Barrett, who closed a decade-long probe with a report detailing a behind-the-scenes battle inside the government as he tried to look into possible tax violations by Cisneros. Cisneros, who was housing secretary during the Clinton administration, pleaded guilty in 1999 to a misdemeanor of lying to the...

Washington -- After the longest independent counsel investigation in history, the prosecutor in the case of former U.S. housing secretary Henry Cisneros is finally closing his operation with a scathing report accusing Clinton administration officials of thwarting an inquiry into whether Cisneros evaded paying income taxes. The legal saga of the prosecutor, David Barrett, lasted more than a decade, consumed some $21 million and came to be a symbol of the sometimes flawed endeavor to prosecute high-level corruption through the use of independent prosecutors. Barrett began his investigation with the narrower issue of whether Cisneros, who was President Bill Clinton's...

Here it is: Final Report

WASHINGTON -- The long-awaited final report by Independent Counsel David Barrett, to be released today [Thursday], was severely censored by court order but not enough to sufficiently obscure its importance. As long forecast, it alleges serious corruption in the Clinton administration's Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The question is what was contained in 120 pages removed by the judges

       Tony Snow is back and better than ever!  Tony's guests and topics on today's Tony Snow Show include:  What's Really Happening What happens when a Hollywood producer gives up his comfortable life to spend a year in the heart of the insurgency in Iraq? We'll get the most accurate look at what's really happening in Iraq today. The Ground Game Fox News Contributor Tiki Barber wonders whether we've got the right ground game against Iran. Republican Revolutionary Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) has led the fight against government waste. So Tony'll ask him: will the House leadership fight...

Slimy coincidence: On the very day that an independent counsel's report implicates members of the Clinton administration for what sounds, smells and looks like obstruction of justice in the Henry Cisneros probe, President Clinton, who pardoned Mr. Cisneros, today becomes eligible to once again practice law. Mr. Clinton cut a deal on his last day in office to give up his right to practice law in Arkansas to avoid prosecution for lying. Birds of a feather... . Sen. Foot-in-Mouth: Hillary Clinton, thought to covet the White House for herself in 2008, won't get out of the primaries if she keeps...

January 18, 2006 The Times Can't Define a "Whistleblower," But It Knows One When It Sees One by John HindenrakerThe New York Times reports on David Barrett's investigation into alleged misdeeds by Clinton cabinet officer Henry Cisneros. Barrett's report will be made public tomorrow, but in the meantime someone leaked it to the Times. The Times' angle on the story is that Barrett's eleven-year investigation exemplifies what went wrong with the independent counsel statute, "an important post-Watergate law." (So important that it has been repealed, to pretty much everyone's relief.)What most struck me about the Times story was how...

The long-awaited final report by Independent Counsel David Barrett, to be released today, was severely censored by court order but not enough to sufficiently obscure its importance. As long forecast, it alleges serious corruption in the Clinton administration's Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The question is what was contained in 120 pages removed by the judges. These allegations explain why Barrett finally has closed down after 10 years the last prosecution under the lapsed independent counsel statute. Its target, Henry Cisneros, long ago resigned as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in a plea bargain after admitting he...

After the longest independent counsel investigation in history, the prosecutor in the case of former Housing Secretary Henry G. Cisneros is finally closing his operation with a scathing report accusing Clinton administration officials of thwarting an inquiry into whether Mr. Cisneros evaded paying income taxes. The legal inquiry by the prosecutor, David M. Barrett, lasted more than a decade, consumed some $21 million and came to be a symbol of the flawed effort to prosecute high-level corruption through the use of independent prosecutors. Mr. Barrett began his investigation with the narrower issue of whether Mr. Cisneros lied to the Federal...