Comments on: Cisneros prosecutor Barrett outspends Fitzgerald http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1258 BTC News: News, politics, opinion and satire Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:22:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: BTC News: If It Says ‘News,’ It Must Be True » Blog Archive » What I learned in school today, or, the government is my oyster http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1258/comment-page-1#comment-1130475 BTC News: If It Says ‘News,’ It Must Be True » Blog Archive » What I learned in school today, or, the government is my oyster Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:38:50 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1258#comment-1130475 [...] did something about it. GAO was, for instance, where I ran across the expense reports on the most amazing ever Independent Counsel investigation. [David M.] Barrett was appointed on May 24, 1995, to investigate allegations that [former Clinton [...] [...] did something about it. GAO was, for instance, where I ran across the expense reports on the most amazing ever Independent Counsel investigation. [David M.] Barrett was appointed on May 24, 1995, to investigate allegations that [former Clinton [...]

]]> By: weldon berger http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1258/comment-page-1#comment-20044 weldon berger Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:13:19 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1258#comment-20044 Hi, Phoenix Woman. The audit reports are on the GAO website. Six months ended September 30, 2004: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-359 Six months ended March 31, 2005: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-961 Six months ended September 30, 2005: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-485 Six months ended March 31, 2004: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d041014.pdf You should be able to find Barrett's previous audits by searching for "Independent Counsel Expenditures" (in quotes) on the <a href="http://www.gao.gov" rel="nofollow">GAO site</a>. Hi, Phoenix Woman. The audit reports are on the GAO website. Six months ended September 30, 2004:
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-359

Six months ended March 31, 2005:
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-961

Six months ended September 30, 2005:
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-485

Six months ended March 31, 2004:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d041014.pdf

You should be able to find Barrett’s previous audits by searching for “Independent Counsel Expenditures” (in quotes) on the GAO site.

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1258/comment-page-1#comment-20032 Phoenix Woman Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:27:44 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1258#comment-20032 By the way: Got a link to the GAO references? By the way: Got a link to the GAO references?

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1258/comment-page-1#comment-20031 Phoenix Woman Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:26:38 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1258#comment-20031 Patrick Fitzgerald doesn't use subpoena power as a way to punish people. Barrett, on the other hand, is following the Standard Partisan Republican Prosecutorial Handbook. One of the favorite tricks in this book is to bankrupt people you don't like by issuing endless subpoenas for them to appear in court. With travel costs and legal costs ramping up -- and which are technically supposed to be reimbursed, but only after the case is closed (which if the case drags on for decades, means nothing if you have bills that need to be paid <i>right now</i>) -- this can take even a well-to-do person to the poorhouse. (Just ask Julie Hiatt Steele.) There are literally dozens of former Clinton staffers struggling under the weight of bogus GOP-motivated prosecutions. Most of these came from Ken Starr's quasi-legal OIC, but others came from people like Bartlett. Patrick Fitzgerald doesn’t use subpoena power as a way to punish people.

Barrett, on the other hand, is following the Standard Partisan Republican Prosecutorial Handbook. One of the favorite tricks in this book is to bankrupt people you don’t like by issuing endless subpoenas for them to appear in court. With travel costs and legal costs ramping up — and which are technically supposed to be reimbursed, but only after the case is closed (which if the case drags on for decades, means nothing if you have bills that need to be paid right now) — this can take even a well-to-do person to the poorhouse. (Just ask Julie Hiatt Steele.)

There are literally dozens of former Clinton staffers struggling under the weight of bogus GOP-motivated prosecutions. Most of these came from Ken Starr’s quasi-legal OIC, but others came from people like Bartlett.

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