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shawa
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 Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: AN IRS COVERUP??? KERRY/DURBIN BLOCKING REPORT!!! |
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Rush was all over this yesterday
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Senators Dorgan and Kerry try to block a report on Clinton-era abuses.
Friday, April 22, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
Perhaps you remember Henry Cisneros. He's the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who pleaded guilty in 1999 to lying to FBI investigators during his pre-appointment background check about hush payments to a former mistress, on which it also happens he hadn't paid the requisite taxes.
Well, the special counsel report investigating all this still hasn't been made public, thanks largely to procedural roadblocks by Mr. Cisneros's attorneys. And now, all of a sudden, a rash of news stories and editorials are urging Independent Counsel David Barrett to wrap up his investigation forthwith, without releasing his findings.
Then there's the amendment that North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan and co-sponsors John Kerry and Richard Durbin are trying to attach to the latest supplemental war appropriations bill that would de-fund Mr. Barrett immediately.
This would have the practical effect of making sure that Mr. Barrett's report never sees the light of day. After 10 long years and $21 million, don't they think taxpayers deserve to see what the special counsel has learned?
We should add that any blame for this delay lies mainly with Mr. Cisneros's lawyers at Williams and Connolly, who have filed more than 190 motions and appeals; one single appeal took some 18 months to deal with.
The 400-plus page Barrett report has been largely done since last August, and awaits only a requisite period for review and response by those named in its pages. The only thing threatening a hold-up past June are further defense motions seeking still more delay.
So what don't Democrats want everyone to know? We're told that early on the Barrett probe moved away from Mr. Cisneros and his mistress and focused on an attempted cover-up by the Clinton Administration, especially involving the IRS.
Back in the early '90s Mr. Cisneros was considered the rising savior of the Democratic Party in Texas. "So there were people who wanted to save his political future," a source tells us.
To that end, when the IRS began investigating him for tax fraud an extraordinary thing happened: The investigation was taken from the IRS district office that would always handle such an audit and moved to Washington, where it was killed.
"Never in the history of the IRS has a case been pulled out of the regional office and taken directly to Washington," our source continues. This information was originally provided to Mr. Barrett, some years into his investigation, by a whistleblower in the IRS regional office with 30 years of experience.
Using his subpoena power, Mr. Barrett also found that the IRS would not have been able to kill the case on its own. It had to have cooperation from the Justice Department, particularly the Public Integrity and Tax divisions.
We're told Mr. Barrett beat back several attempts by Justice to squelch or otherwise limit his investigation, and that a lot of important names from the Clinton era appear in the report.
One key figure is likely to be former Clinton Administration IRS Commissioner Peggy Richardson, a prominent Texas Democrat, and a friend of both Mr. Cisneros and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
With Mrs. Clinton likely to run for President in 2008, all of this obviously bears on the character of her potential Administration. (Bill Clinton pardoned Mr. Cisneros in 2001.)
But just as important is the rare look the report may provide of how the IRS can be manipulated for political ends. This is the first time the IRS has been investigated with grand jury subpoena power, and it is likely to be revealing.
Abuse of the taxing power is about as serious as corruption can get in our democracy, and it should be of bipartisan concern. In the 1990s, conservative critics of the Clinton Administration such as the Heritage Foundation had to endure suspicious audits.
And of course the Nixon Tapes reveal that the former Republican President ordered tax investigations of Democratic opponents and donors. These columns recently raised doubts about an IRS probe of the tax status of the NAACP.
Yet now three highly partisan Democrats want to de-fund this probe and prevent publication of the report. "There is no other way to characterize this but as obstruction of justice," a source tells us, noting that Congress has never before tried to step on an Independent Counsel investigation like this.
Surely given the ethical history of the Clinton years, the public deserves to see the report and judge for itself whether the IRS and Justice Department were misused for political purposes. |
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006594
I heard someone talking a couple of weeks ago about this Independent
Counsel Investigation still going from 10 years ago.
I thought TEN YEARS???--Cisneros was convicted long ago! And
Bill Clinton pardoned him! Why is this IC still going???
What the heck is going on here???
Well, now we know!! And the Dems are DESPERATE to keep the Report
from coming out.
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kate
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Why is this IC still going???
What the heck is going on here??? |
good question,
ten years later, and
25 million dollars???
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Stevie
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:59 am Post subject: |
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gee, and I've heard soooo much of about this on the news!
why not? not even on Fox???? (since that's what I watch)
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kate
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a little more info here-- names names of those audited
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/4/24/125509.shtml
Friday, April 22, 2005 4:52 p.m. EDT
Cisneros Probe Found Clinton IRS Abuse
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Top Democrats are reportedly trying to deep-six the findings of an independent counsel probe into former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros that uncovered evidence the Clinton White House used the Internal Revenue Service to audit political enemies.
The probe's final report now in the hands of a three-judge panel reportedly says that the Clinton IRS "sometimes audited Clinton critics without good cause," according to the New York Daily News.
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At least a dozen Clinton witnesses including Sexgate accusers Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Elizabeth Ward Gracen and Juanita Broaddrick were targeted by audits during the 1990s.
Conservative groups critical of the Clinton administration were also audited, including the Christian Coalition, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Freedom Alliance, the Heritage Foundation, the NRA and others.
Barrett's report is also said to allege that Justice Department officials snuffed out a tax case against Cisneros.
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Beatrice1000
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| Geez, there's that Louisiana thing with all those crooks connected to Kennedy & Clintons -- and now this -- makes one wonder how very, very long a page would be if one were to list the criminal associates and criminal activities engaged in by these people. Of course kerry is out to stop the investigation, he owes hillary... I think their deceit webs are going to choke them all in the end... or, at the very least, turn them against each other which would be good to watch... |
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kate
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| Quote: | | Of course kerry is out to stop the investigation, he owes hillary |
interesting, isnt it. I would think that skerry would want to see her go down, so he doesnt have to face her in 2008
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