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...Senate Republicans by concluding there was no basis for a criminal investigation into the president's failed real estate venture, with a largely unknown judge with no prosecutorial experience. Before he would come to the same conclusion as Fiske four and a half years later, this man, Kenneth W. Starr, came to embody everything that is wrong with the independent counsel...
Congress must also explicitly define the role of the independent counsel in impeachment proceedings. When evidence of possibly impeachable offenses surfaced last January, Starr conducted the investigations himself, instead of turning it over to Congress, as the independent counsel law requires. In the future, investigations that may lead to the national trauma of impeachment should be entrusted to the House...
...independent counsel's office--like the presidency--should not be judged entirely on the people who hold it. Though Ken Starr's conduct has been outrageous, entirely scrapping the law he abused is no solution...
...result of Starr's conduct during his investigation, it seems clear that Congress will not renew the law this year without substantial revisions. The most urgent flaw of the current statute is that the independent counsel, though himself appointed to oversee and investigate public officials, has no oversight himself. There was no one to monitor him as he spent more than $40 million on his campaign...
...first thing Congress must do is make the independent counsel accountable to someone. Currently, only the attorney general can dismiss independent counsels. But the attorney general is constrained by political considerations. She could hardly dismiss Starr, no matter how badly he conducted his investigation. Why not give the same three-judge panel that appoints independent counsels, or some other non-partisan body, the authority to remove them...