The Cisneros Probe Report

The New York Sun reports:

The report is said to lay blame for the length and cost of the inquiry on Messrs. Radek and Finkelstein and to hint that the two men were taking di rection from the White House. The two former Clinton administration officials are said to deny emphatically the charges in an appendix to the report.

A key element of the independent counsel's case, persons familiar with the report say, is a memorandum written in 1997 by a former chief of the criminal investigation division for the IRS's South Texas District, John Filan, to the chief inspector of the IRS in Washington. In the memo, Mr. Filan accuses Mr. Finkelstein of ordering the unprecedented removal of a regional investigation to Washington. The memo also claims that Finkelstein directed his subordinates to kill the case and that he worked in tandem with senior officials at the Department of Justice to make sure the case was not referred to Mr. Barrett for potential prosecution.

The removal of a regional IRS investigation to Washington is "extremely unusual," according to a former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Andrew McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy worked briefly for the independent counsel.

It's a long article but you might want to read the whole thing.