What Are John Kerry and Co. Trying To Cover Up?

While it would seem that the Democratic Party is very busy with trying to get rid of Tom Delay, they are never too busy to cover up for the misdeeds of their own party.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are quietly trying to kill a 10-year legal probe that implicates several senior Clinton administration appointees for obstruction of justice, the Daily News has learned.
The Democrats, saying that the $21 million investigation by Independent Counsel David Barrett should have ended long ago, succeeded in attaching an amendment to a spending bill Tuesday to cut off his funding by June 1.

Yes, you read that right. While the left is trying to perform a political assassination of DeLay over ethics questions they should all have to answer as well; John Kerry, Richard Durbin, and Byron Dorgan are quietly trying to flush an investigation that may implicate the Clintons in widespread abuse of IRS authority. This from Opinion Journal:

We're told that early on the Barrett probe moved away from Mr. Cisneros and his mistress and focused on an attempted cover-up by the Clinton Administration, especially involving the IRS.

Back in the early '90s Mr. Cisneros was considered the rising savior of the Democratic Party in Texas. "So there were people who wanted to save his political future," a source tells us. To that end, when the IRS began investigating him for tax fraud an extraordinary thing happened: The investigation was taken from the IRS district office that would always handle such an audit and moved to Washington, where it was killed.

"Never in the history of the IRS has a case been pulled out of the regional office and taken directly to Washington," our source continues. This information was originally provided to Mr. Barrett, some years into his investigation, by a whistleblower in the IRS regional office with 30 years of experience.

There are also questions about the Clintons use of the IRS to apply pressure.

Abuse of the taxing power is about as serious as corruption can get in our democracy, and it should be of bipartisan concern. In the 1990s, conservative critics of the Clinton Administration such as the Heritage Foundation had to endure suspicious audits. And of course the Nixon Tapes reveal that the former Republican President ordered tax investigations of Democratic opponents and donors.

It's not like it was really any secret that conservative critics of the Clintons were being audited in the 1990's. It was, frankly, common knowledge. Given the fabricated hysteria over DeLay though, one might expect the Democratic Party to at least appear to take this a little more seriously.

Yet now three highly partisan Democrats want to de-fund this probe and prevent publication of the report. "There is no other way to characterize this but as obstruction of justice," a source tells us, noting that Congress has never before tried to step on an Independent Counsel investigation like this. Surely given the ethical history of the Clinton years, the public deserves to see the report and judge for itself whether the IRS and Justice Department were misused for political purposes.

I wonder what could possibly be so damaging that the Democrats are willing to flush $21 million of our money down the toilet? Dollars to donuts it is something that would drastically erode Hillary's prospects at becoming the next president.

Indeed, it is business as usual in the Democratic Party.

I wonder how many people realize that it has been George W. Bush that has been protecting the Clintons from the worst of the scandals, like the Marc Rich pardon and their shameful trashing of the White House before they left. Given the tactics the left are currently using, maybe it's time to open the books.