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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (42637)	4/22/2005 1:42:49 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

The New York Daily News yesterday reported that Democratic Sens. Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota and John Kerry of Massachusetts were trying to kill a legal probe implicating senior Clinton administration appointees for obstruction of justice. The lawmakers Tuesday attached an amendment to a spending bill, which passed the Senate yesterday, to cut off funding for independent counsel David Barrett's 10-year-old investigation of Henry Cisneros, former Housing and Urban Development secretary. The lawmakers said Mr. Cisneros paid a $10,000 fine in 1999 for lying to the FBI about payments to a mistress and that former President Bill Clinton pardoned him — so the probe "should have ended years ago." Sources told the paper the legislation will thwart Mr. Barrett's attempts to make a 400-page final report public. They said the report will accuse former Clinton officials at the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service of using their positions to attack Clinton critics and cover up possible criminal deeds. "It's about obstruction of justice. People are willing to take drastic actions to kill this report," one source said. Differences between the House and Senate spending bills for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan still must be resolved in a conference committee.