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David Barrett is a Special Prosecutor assigned to investigate the Clinton Administration's alleged abuse of the Internal Revenue Service especially in the matter of the Henry Cisneros scandal. Barrett has written what is rumored to be a damning report. Release of the report has been blocked by parlimentary maneuvers by Clinton's personal attorney David Kendall . Columnist Emmett Tyrrell has written the following about the report: "When Barrett completed his report the Clintons' lawyers, led by that legendary Clinton pettifogger, David Kendall, tried to kill off the report either by gutting it with redactions or by getting it buried altogether. Kendall entered some 140 motions pursuant to this goal. The report has been ready for publication since August 2004, but Kendall's nuisance tactics have worked, and now what do we hear from the Clintonistas? They complain that Barrett has cost too much and taken too long. As they are themselves are the reason for much of the cost and delay, advocates of good government should be up in arms. This stratagem has been used too frequently by the Clintonistas to smear an officer of the court." In April, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) tried to end the $22 million investigation, including $1 million for the first six months of 2005 - by cutting Barrett's budget, saying "it's a waste of money." {Link without Title} Kendall has not commented to the news media. Barrett's report was released in early 2006. His investigation was far and away the longest independent counsel investigation in history After agreeing to permit Cisneros - the target of his investigation - to plead guilty to a misdemeanor with no jail sentence, Barrett thereafter spent six years investigating whether the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service had impeded his investigation. His lengthy report contained no evidence of any such conspiracy. Those, such as Tyrrell, who had intimated that his report was going to damage the Clintons, have been silent since the release of the report revealed that there was nothing to these suggestions. |
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