Friday, January 20, 2006

Cisneros Home Town Paper Agrees: Independent Counsel Excessive



The San Antonio Express News has also taken the position that the Cisneros probe was a waste of money and time.

Independent counsel David Barrett's absurdly long investigation into matters that started with Henry Cisneros' payments to a lover came to an end with the release of a final report Thursday.

Barrett should have thrown in the towel several years and millions of dollars earlier. In all, he spent more than 10 years and $22 million on the case, as the Express-News reported.

Barrett's parting shot includes acerbic complaints that high-ranking officials in the IRS and the Department of Justice — during the Clinton administration — thwarted his probe and mishandled evidence that suggested Cisneros underreported taxable income in the early 1990s.


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