The American Spectator

p> RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE br> Re: Quin Hillyer’s Crooked Hillary : /p> p>Quin Hillyer has kicked it straight through the uprights again. All of Hillary Clinton’s corrupt activities are going essentially unchallenged, and it is baffling. Once she is elected, there is no turning back. This is madness. br> — Cara Lyons Lege’ br> Frisco, Texas /p>

Quin Hillyer’s piece regarding skeletons in the Clinton closet is right on target. I would add one more scandal that really hasn’t seen the light of day. It’s told in the report of Special Counsel David M. Barrett.

Mr. Barrett’s report deals with former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros’s false statements to FBI investigators during his pre appointment background check. Equally important, it’s also a report on abuses of the nation’s taxing authority during the Clinton Administration. It details how the tax investigation of Cisneros was killed by transferring it out of channels to Washington where the Justice Department could write its epitaph. And there were additional problems relating to IRS records and tax returns. Interestingly, they arose at the same time the White House was requesting the FBI files on prominent Republicans. Think “Filegate.” Margaret P. Richardson, IRS Commissioner at the time, was/is a close friend of Hillary Clinton and Cisneros.

In 2005, however, Democratic members of Congress effectively suppressed Barrett’s report, resulting in a heavily redacted version being made public. They criticized the length of time required to complete the investigation — this, despite the fact that Clinton attorneys were responsible for the major delays in issuing the report. Furthermore, their “concerns for privacy” were nothing more than political gambits. Moves to suppress the Barrett report were, in reality, the actions of justice-obstructing wolves dressed in the sheep’s clothing of privacy concerns.

Consider the situation where a miner works all month in a bone-chilling Alaska stream panning for gold. By month’s end he’s accumulated a large leather poke stuffed with gold dust. Then, upon orders from Congress, he dumps the precious metal back into the river. Visualize a diamond miner spending a year digging far below the surface in a shaft where temperatures exceed 100 degrees. Congress gives him the “word” and he too, empties his bag of treasure — right down the shaft. Then he dynamites the mine. “Throwing it back down the hole” is precisely what Democrats in Congress did with the Barrett report.