Originally Posted By patrickegan Sen. Lindsey Graham is calling on the three-judge panel overseeing the investigation of Independent Counsel David Barrett to release Barrett's final report, which reportedly includes evidence of politically motivated IRS audits launched by the Clinton administration. "We spent $22 million [on Barrett's investigation]. We ought to be able to read the report," Graham told Fox News Radio's Tony Snow on Friday. The document, finished 13 months ago, has been bottled up by the panel - with Democrats in the Senate making an unsuccessful bid earlier this year to quash its publication. Sen. Graham said he sympathized with those who may have been targeted with bogus audits, telling Snow, "I was involved in impeachment. I can tell you what it's like to be involved on the receiving end of some of this." "We're told the Barrett report will be an eye-opener," the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. "It is the first time the IRS has ever been investigated using grand jury subpoena powers." Many of the Clintons' most vocal accusers found themselves targeted by suspicious IRS audits during the 1990s, including Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, Elizabeth Ward Gracen and former travel office chief Billy Dale. In 1997, Ms. Jones' confidential tax returns were leaked to the Daily News in an effort to show she was profiting from her lawsuit against President Clinton.
