Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Clinton scandals live on

Power Line brings us some new Clinton scandal news today. It seems that Independent Council David Barrett's report on the Henry Cisneros investigation, which has arleady gone on seemingly forever and cost millions of dollars, is being tied up because it points to corruption in the Clinton era IRS and Justice Department:
The reason the report and the investigation have taken so long is that allies to Cisneros and the legal team of former President Bill Clinton at the powerhouse Washington law firm of Williams and Connolly have fought its progress in court at every step. Meanwhile, Clinton-sympathetic judges have sealed everything concerned with the case, including Barrett's report.

The report contains shocking allegations of high-level corruption in the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department under Clinton, which Barrett found as Clinton aides monitored his investigation and sought to derail it in order to cover up the Cisneros matter. A regional IRS official had formulated a new rule enabling him to transfer an investigation of Cisneros to Washington to be buried by the Justice Department. Barrett's investigators found Lee Radek, head of Justice's public integrity division, determined to protect President Bill Clinton.

The information, originally from the Evans-Novak Political Report, also says that Democrats worked behind closed doors to alter a recent bill which would have allowed the report to be made public. Ah, Bill Clinton and scandals, the fruitcake that keeps on re-gifting.

Update
Tony Snow has more.

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