4.23.2005

John Kerry: reporting for cover-up

The WSJ's OpinionJournal reveals what's going on in the smoke-free and brightly lit yet none-the-less corrupt back rooms of the Senate:

Perhaps you remember Henry Cisneros. He's the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development who pleaded guilty in 1999 to lying to FBI investigators during his pre-appointment background check about hush payments to a former mistress, on which it also happens he hadn't paid the requisite taxes.

Well, the special counsel report investigating all this still hasn't been made public, thanks largely to procedural roadblocks by Mr. Cisneros's attorneys. And now, all of a sudden, a rash of news stories and editorials are urging Independent Counsel David Barrett to wrap up his investigation forthwith, without releasing his findings.

Then there's the amendment that North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan and co-sponsors John Kerry and Richard Durbin are trying to attach to the latest supplemental war appropriations bill that would de-fund Mr. Barrett immediately. This would have the practical effect of making sure that Mr. Barrett's report never sees the light of day. After 10 long years and $21 million, don't they think taxpayers deserve to see what the special counsel has learned?

Apparently Barrett has discovered things about abuses of power in the Clinton administration, including using the IRS and the Justice Department to help political friends and punish enemies. This would be embarrassing, at a minimum, to Hillary Clinton as she campaigns for 2008. But Kerry, judging from his recent delusional speeches, still believes he has a chance to be the nominee. What's he doing taking the lead on Clinton's cover-up?

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