This is a story conservatives cannot help but love. Byron York in The Huffington Post (yes, that's Arrianne Huffinction), on the not so infamous Barrett Report. Barrent spent ten years and twenty-one million bucks investigating Henry Cisneros, Clinton Housing Secretary. Much of that time was spent investigating folks he suspected of interfering with his investigation. That's a pretty good example of what is wrong with the independent council law.
But now that his report is ready to be released, three Senators have attempted to keep it locked away.
Democratic senators John Kerry, Byron Dorgan, and Dick Durbin tried to close Barrett's office by writing an amendment that would de-fund it, and then attaching that amendment to a larger war spending bill. Had the amendment passed, it would have probably made it impossible for Barrett to publish his report.
Its hard for me to get very excited about a scandal left over from the Clinton Administration. But scandalous behavior on the part of Kerry and Dorgan, that's interesting.
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