When [special prosecutor] Barrett pulled on that thread, he reportedly unraveled a cloak hiding abuses of the Justice Department and the IRS. If recent teases about what's in his 400-page report are true, the previous administration [Clinton] was siccing agents on its political opponents.
At the time, various Clinton critics, from the Heritage Foundation to The American Spectator magazine, found themselves under suspicious IRS audits. Was there a deliberate pattern? It's possible the Barrett report can tell us.
Alas, Barrett's work could be the first special prosecutor's report never to see daylight. Clinton operatives have taken advantage of a legal provision letting them blot out anything they feel damages their privacy. And Senate Democrats, with the unwitting cooperation of Senate Republicans, slipped into an appropriations bill a provision that would deep-six the report.
Time for the report to be made public.
Update
More from Fox News.
Here's what started it all.
In 1999, Cisneros pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI, paid a $10,000 fine and was later pardoned by Clinton.
But then things got interesting.
In the October court order, the judges specified that Section Five dealt with Barrett's investigation into tax-related matters and obstruction of justice charges beyond the Cisneros affair.
Now you know why the Democrats want his report buried fast and deep.
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