The Fraudulent Senator: Part 1 of a 7 Part Series
Joan Swirsky
March 13, 2006

Once upon a time the woman who former Democrat House Ways and Means Committee Chairman and convicted felon Dan Rostenkowski was credited with calling "the smartest woman in the world” decided that departing the pinnacle of world power at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – where she was co-president of the U.S. for eight years – was unacceptable.

In no time, she decided that the fastest route to regaining that power was to spend as few years as possible as the junior senator from New York and then move onward and upward to reclaim what she believes is her rightful place in history as the first female president of the United States of America.

Hillary Rodham Clinton promptly relocated to the Empire State and moved into an upscale house financed by the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Her senatorial campaign involved spinning the yarn that she was a long-time NY Yankees fan, assuring upstate conservative voters that she "cared" about their jobs, informing the large liberal base of NY City Jewish voters that she was part Jewish (endearing coming from the wife of the first black president), and convincing the Chasidic New Square community in Rockland County (that had formerly voted overwhelmingly for arch-conservative Sen. Alfonse D’Amato) to vote 99 to 1 for her.

Never mind that two months after her election she pardoned four residents of New Square who had been convicted of defrauding the federal government, an act not quite as egregious as her husband’s attempt to win her New York’s Hispanic vote by pardoning 16 members of the FALN terrorist group who had planted over 130 bombs in the U.S., killed six people and injured 70.

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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.

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Hearts over minds, he tells Democrats

Drew Westen, a genial 48-year-old psychologist and brain researcher, was talking to a rapt liberal audience about the role of emotion in politics, how to talk back aggressively to Republicans, and why going negative is not to be feared.

It was Day 2 of the progressive "Take Back America" confab, and those who had crowded into a meeting room of the Washington Hilton were about to discover why Westen, a psychology professor at Atlanta’s Emory University and former associate professor at Harvard Medical School, had quietly become the great rumpled hope of Democrats who believe their candidates should have won the last two presidential elections.

Example: When President Bush recently refused to allow Karl Rove to testify under oath about his role in the sacking of federal prosecutors, Westen said, Democrats blundered. Instead of insisting Rove testify under oath, they simply should have said (over and over), "Mr. Bush, just what is it about ‘So help me God’ that you find so offensive?"

Westen has spent many years training psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers, and his major brush with fame before now had been the occasional commentary on National Public Radio. In the last several months, though, he has gone from a politically inclined nobody to a hot ticket, presenting his ideas to presidential campaigns, political strategists, pollsters, consultants and donors. In his work, they hope to find a grand unified theory of How Democrats Can Stop Blowing It.

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Lost in the tumult over Islamic port deals and Katrina video capers is the recently released — and willfully ignored — Barrett Report. David Barrett, you’ll recall, is the independent counsel appointed in 1995 to investigate allegations of impropriety against President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros.
    Mr. Barrett found his path mined by the Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service and President Clinton’s attorneys, even after Mr. Clinton departed the White House. He prepared 18 felony indictments against Mr. Cisneros but had to settle for a guilty plea on a misdemeanor charge (lying to the FBI about his mistress, a poor choice for a tax write-off). He sought to prosecute Mr. Cisneros for tax fraud over a period of years but was thwarted by Attorney General Janet Reno. Ultimately Mr. Cisneros resigned his post, whereupon President Clinton, constitutionally bound to men who lie about their mistresses, pardoned him.

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More on the Barrett Report

This month a report completed in 2004 by independent counsel David Barrett was made public. It documented the obstruction and impediment of justice that gave the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development a license to lie and cheat.

The term “made public” is a misnomer; 100-plus pages of the original 400-page report were “redacted” by court order.

Those who claim familiarity with the redactions say many concern the work to squelch the special prosecutor’s investigation by Margaret “Peggy” Milner Richardson, a former IRS commissioner and a Hillary friend.

The Barrett report also brings into focus the work of Lee Radek, a former employee of the CIA, then the chief of the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department. It is stated in the report that Radek claimed that Cisneros had committed no tax violation, although he admitted he only reviewed eight of the hundreds of checks written by the former San Antonio mayor.

Then there is Barry Finkelstein, an assistant chief counsel for criminal tax matters at the IRS. His role is reported as telling his associates to “kill the Cisneros case.” Perhaps to ensure that this was done, and done mercifully, the case was removed from San Antonio to Washington, D.C.

When Barrett, a veteran lawyer with some 30 years of experience, sought authority to examine the Cisneros tax returns, Attorney General Reno agreed. Barrett was allowed to review the return of just one year.

And, when the Democrats under Clinton were dismissed, the incoming Bush administration, seeking national unity, refused to be distracted by the scandals of the Gang of Three.

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After 10 years and a public expenditure of $21 million, the longest independent counsel investigation in history has finally come to an end. The anticlimactic result was no charges, no indictment, but a 746-page report speculating without evidence that there might have been a high-level cover-up.

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A “Possibility” for the reason Hillary Clinton has made controversial remarks this week could be to shield her against the news on the Barrett Report. Could Hillary have purposley made the statement:

Said Clinton, “When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I’m talking about…”

Could she have caculated a way for her outragious statement to monopolize the newscasts this week to draw the media away from the Barrett Report? The “Mainstream Media” could casually report the “Republican Plantation” statement and convienently ignore the Barrett Reports 100+ pages missing?

Just a thought… machiavellian

Nevertheless, the question remains what three judges — David Sentelle (D.C.), Thomas Reavley (Texas) and Peter Fay (Florida) — blacked out in 120 pages worth of redactions. Even after the report is released, Barrett and his lawyers would face judicial sanctions if they disclosed anything that was redacted.

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Interesting how Impeached Ex President Bill Clinton can now get his Law License back the same week the Barrett Report is due to hit the news. Interesting that he and Hillary were able to turn their lawyers loose to have the Barrett Report be stripped of any mention of the Clintons using the IRS to go after their political enemies. The head of the IRS at the time when the abuse was going on was non other than Hillary Clintons friend!

The five-year suspension of Bill Clinton’s Arkansas law license in connection with the Monica Lewinsky affair ends this week, but an aide declined Tuesday to say whether the ex-president is seeking reinstatement.

The Arkansas Supreme Court’s Committee on Professional Conduct, citing court policy, would not say whether Clinton is seeking reinstatement. Clinton spokesman Jay Carson said the former president has other matters pending.

“I can say right off the bat that he’s focused on the work of his foundation, which among many activities is treating hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients around the world, fighting childhood obesity here at home and helping tsunami and hurricane victims,” Carson said.

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As many predicted… Barrett Report is missing any mention of how the Clinton White House used the IRS to go after their political enemies.

A special prosecutor’s long-delayed report charges that a coverup at senior levels of the Clinton administration killed a tax fraud case against former Cabinet member Henry Cisneros, the New York Daily News has learned.

David Barrett’s 11-year, $23 million probe, which will be released Thursday, states in stinging terms that the Clinton coverup succeeded.

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