Inquiry on Clinton Official Ends With Accusations of Cover-Up (MUST READ!)

[dajoki]

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/politics/19inquire.html?th&emc=th

PLease read entire story!!
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Inquiry on Clinton Official Ends With Accusations of Cover-Up

By DAVID JOHNSTON and NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: January 19, 2006

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 - 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 Bureau of Investigation when he was being considered for the cabinet position. He ended his inquiry accusing the Clinton administration of a possible cover-up.

His report says Justice Department officials refused to grant him the broad jurisdiction he wanted; for example, Attorney General Janet Reno said he could look at only one tax year. And after Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington took a Cisneros investigation out of the hands of district-level officials in Texas, the agency deemed the evidence too weak to merit a criminal inquiry, a conclusion strongly disputed by one Texas investigator.

[NativeTexan]

1. OK...we "thwarted".....but THEY.....

.....WREAK of criminality. And I wonder, after spending $21 million on a ten year investigation, just how much tax was evaded!

[dajoki]

2. wasn't even...

reason for investigation. let's check into Cheney's taxes.

[Sparkly]

3. I think they wanted to keep digging

until they came up with a reason.

[NativeTexan]

4. Just like.....

....they did with Bill and Hillary!!

[dajoki]

7. "money for nothing" n/t

[Vinca]

5. Why is it whenever things are going badly for Shrub there are 2

things you can count on: a Bin Laden tape and a Clinton scandal rehash?

[dajoki]

6. pass the buck n/t

[EVDebs]

8. Dept. of Justification needs red-herrings for Bush fig leafs....nt