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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...
...process for selecting independent counsels must also be changed to prevent obvious partisans like Starr from conducting investigations of political opponents. Starr's connections to anti-Clinton groups and individuals--the tobacco industry and Richard Mellon Scaife, for example--should have immediately precluded him from...
...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...
...attorney general should also have tighter control over the scope of future independent counsels' investigations. How Starr, appointed to investigate an Arkansas land venture, managed to get involved in the Lewinsky scandal continues to perplex many. No independent counsel should be a permanent institution; their investigations should be specific and subject to tighter and more regular scrutiny by the attorney general...