What's this about the "Barrett" report?

[CatWoman]

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. 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 lied to FBI interrogators to gain Senate confirmation. What kept Barrett in business was what he and his prosecutors contend is a Clinton administration cover-up of income tax evasion charges against Cisneros.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/3596679.html

[mrcheerful]

1. OBL is back in the news, much more important then anything else.

[Justitia]

2. This is an editorial hit piece by RWer Bob "No Facts" Novak - pure crap.

The whole slant of the article is trying to insinuate that the evil Clinton administration is covering up a tax evasion by Cisneros, which has long ago been found to be without merit.

The crap the judges forced to be redacted were wild-ass, completely fabricated stories about the Clinton administration that a desperate Barrett simply wanted to get into print somewhere.

This editorial should be used for toilet paper, just like everything else that hateful old crank writes.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Maybe He Figured He'd Milked Enough

money out of the project, and it was time to move on?

I still think they have a pantry of issues they can walk into, find an issue that will balance one of their latest scandals or take attention away from them, and make it public. Like OBL?

10 years? That's obscene!

[Sparkle]

4. This prosecutor should have folded this a long time ago.

Pathetic!

[Jim__]

5. One more multi-million dollar investigation of the Clinton Administration

that comes up with no wrong-doing found - just repub whining.

[HuffleClaw]

6. yeah, but you just KNOW the freepers will

claim that those missing pages contain evidence about bigfoot, the grassy knole, and clintons secret satan worshiping, soylent green eating gay commie socks with sandals club meetings...