US Politicians abusing their power?

But...but...This is America!

So what don't Democrats want everyone to know? 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.

...(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...

Using his subpoena power, Mr. Barrett also found that the IRS would not have been able to kill the case on its own. It had to have cooperation from the Justice Department, particularly the Public Integrity and Tax divisions.

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial which concludes:

Abuse of the taxing power is about as serious as corruption can get in our democracy, and it should be of bipartisan concern.

Of course, politicians have always been corrupt and abused their power (in most countries that is understood to be their job), and perhaps less often now than a century ago, but this stuff really does need to be beaten down whenever possible. Our government has far too much power for us to take its abuse lightly. The sight of some Senators and Representatives in federal prisons would be awfully edifying for the rest of them.

My bet: We will never hear about this again.

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