What’s missing from the Barrett Report?

From The Hillary Project

In May of 1995, David Barrett was appointed to investigate allegations that Henry Cisneros, Bill Clinton’s secretary of housing, lied to the FBI about payments he had made to his mistress. In September 1999, Mr. Cisneros, a former San Antonio mayor,  plead guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a $10,000 fine, and was pardoned by President Clinton on Mr. Clinton’s final day in office.

But the investigation did not stop there, because during the course of the probe, Barrett reportedly sought information about Cisneros’ taxes and ran into a roadblock erected by the IRS.

There have been reports that Barrett then spent a significant amount of time trying to investigate possible IRS misconduct, and what happened in the course of that investigation is apparently the subject of some of Barrett’s final report.

The Barrett Report connects the dots that allege that senior officials of the Clinton Administration hindered investigations by the IRS in both Texas and Washington, as well as the investigations of a grand jury examining the independent counsel’s evidence.

Barrett’s report is also said to allege that 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.

After 10 years, the long awaited report was released in January, 2006. In the press release of the report, Barrett writes, it should have been titled "What We Were Prevented From Reporting".

One fourth of the Barrett Report has been redacted because the information has been found to be too damaging to Hillary, and many believe it would be too damaging to her Presidential bid.

Read the rest at The Hillary Project

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