Spending Continues in Cisneros Probe

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Cisneros-Probe.html
May 23, 2005
Spending Continues in Cisneros Probe
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:58 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress has refused to halt spending on a decade-old investigation of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros despite Democratic senators' attempt to stop it.

Independent Counsel David Barrett said much of the spending goes to overhead costs, such as rent, which is required by law to ensure the independence of his probe.

A Senate provision that would have ended spending on the probe next month was killed during closed-door negotiations on a broader bill paying for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.

The bill for the Cisneros investigation had reached nearly $21 million at the end of the September.

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They've created a whole new industry for out of work, talentless dickheads to unleash the anger at their meaningless, unfulfilled lives by attacking thos who actually achieve and do good for the world.

Well, at least it keeps them off the streets and out of therapy.

have to spend at least a $billion to investigate the Bush Evil Empire.

The money spent on this can be spent elsewhere for better use.