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Hillary Bracing For Barrett Report

The infamous Barrett report will be released tomorrow. The New York Daily News reports it will state " in stinging terms that this Clinton coverup succeeded." More background from the NYDN:

Cisneros was forced to admit in 1999 that he had made secret payments to a mistress before serving as Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Barrett investigated tax fraud charges stemming from those under-the-table payments.

Then-IRS Commissioner Peggy Richardson, a close friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), was involved in efforts to quash the probe, a source close to the case alleged.

But Richardson's role was cut from Barrett's report, which went through 26 drafts, because Democratic law firm Williams & Connolly successfully pressured Barrett to remove a section of the report naming her, a source said.

The law firm represents Cisneros, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.

A Williams & Connolly attorney declined to comment.

The report looks to be potentially embarrassing to Hillary, but whether it's damaging or not is another matter altogether. If you look at the considerable amount of baggage she's dragged around for years without any adverse electoral effects - exorbitant cattle future profits, the unseemliness of Travelgate and Filegate, the mysterious appearance of the Rose Law Firm billing records, Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers, etc - it's hard to imagine anything coming out of the Barrett report that will be explosive enough to do her real political harm.