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Lawrence Walsh's probe of the Iran-contra allegations ratcheted up the debate about the statute because he spent so much time and money on the job. Walsh was the first independent counsel to conduct a wide-ranging and costly ($47 million) investigation. It resulted in seven guilty pleas and four convictions (two were overturned, and George Bush pardoned six of the targets). There has been grumbling about various probes since Walsh's, but only Starr's ever expanding Whitewater investigation, which is likely to exceed the cost of Walsh's inquiry, has been so castigated...
...defense. Douglas, an old friend of Espy's who was meant to be the prosecution's strongest witness, turned on Smaltz on the stand and said he'd agreed to become his "puppet" only after three years of "storm-trooper" tactics by the independent counsel. "God knows, if I had $30 million, I could find dirt on you, sir," Douglas told Smaltz in front of the jury. (The amount Smaltz actually spent, through March, was $17.5 million...
...done little to boost support for the statute, the same might be said of independent counsel David Barrett. He was appointed to investigate Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros' misstatements to FBI agents about payments to a former lover. But it's the former lover, Linda Jones, who landed in jail, and the case against her was based on false statements made on a mortgage application. "The problem with the statute is that the prosecutors, with unlimited resources and unlimited time, become obsessed with bringing down the people they are mandated to pursue," says Espy lawyer Ted Wells...
...delegates will vote on an A.B.A. task-force report that recommends scrapping the law. If it must be kept, the task force argues, only the President, Vice President and Attorney General should be covered by it. Also, the Attorney General should have a role in selecting the independent counsels, and the Justice Department should not be tied to a hair-trigger threshold of evidence in deciding whether a counsel should be appointed. Other critics argue that the law should apply only when the alleged wrongdoing occurred while the official was in office...
HAROLD ICKES Reno delays making a decision on independent counsel. Now he can put her back on his Christmas list...