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With the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Water Acts in 1972, giant corporate polluters knew the American public would no longer tolerate direct pollution anymore. Since then, they have changed their style--but not their substance. They have participated in a surreptitious media war, bypassed several federal laws, intensely lobbied Congress for loopholes and maliciously forced citizens to choose between humans and animals. The culmination was the 1994 Republican revolution when conservative leaders tried to repeal the Endangered Species Act, open national parks to logging and mining, and deregulate disposal of hazardous wastes...
...With the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air and Water Acts in 1972, giant corporate polluters knew the American public would no longer tolerate direct pollution anymore. Since then, they have changed their style--but not their substance. They have participated in a surreptitious media war, bypassed several federal laws, intensely lobbied Congress for loopholes and maliciously forced citizens to choose between humans and animals. The culmination was the 1994 Republican revolution when conservative leaders tried to repeal the Endangered Species Act, open national parks to logging and mining, and deregulate disposal of hazardous wastes...
...independent counsel act, the law that permits Kenneth Starr to conduct dragnet investigations into private lives, taking as much time as he wants, spending as much money as he wants, inquiring into whatever excites his prurient curiosity--and all without visible accountability. Starr usurped congressional prerogatives when instead of following Leon Jaworski's Watergate precedent of submitting his findings in a neutral form and allowing the House of Representatives to make its own judgment, he shaped them into a demand for impeachment. From compliant judges he obtained rulings that turn White House lawyers, aides and even Secret Service personnel into...
...second statute is the Inspector General Act, which gives autonomy to the inspectors general of Executive departments and agencies, enables them to effectively abridge due process in their investigations, and makes them more answerable to Congress than to their nominal superiors. They too do their dirty work without serious accountability...
Under the Inspector General Act, anonymous denunciations thrive in Washington as they have rarely done since the Council of Ten in the Venice of the doges. Like road-company Kenneth Starrs, inspectors general and their flatfoots roam through the private lives of public officials. The idiotic pursuit of the diplomat Richard Holbrooke, our proposed ambassador to the United Nations, a man who has spent most of the past 40 years working for the government only to have his whole life investigated anew, is the latest dismal consequence of uninhibited and unaccountable prosecutorial authority...