Why don't we bring back the Independent counsel law?

June 29, 1999 Web posted at: 6:12 p.m. EDT (2212 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 29) -- The independent counsel law, created as part of post-Watergate reforms but a target of increasing criticism over the years, will expire Wednesday.

Before the act was signed into law in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter, the president alone appointed special prosecutors to investigate allegations of wrongdoing against high-ranking government officials. After the so-called Saturday Night Massacre during the Watergate scandal -- where two top government officials resigned rather than carry out President Richard Nixon's demand the special prosecutor Archibald Cox be fired -- Congress was convinced the executive branch could not be trusted to impartially investigate its own.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/29/independent.counsel

I bet there's enough votes to pass this right now.

Let chimpie try to veto this one.

Funny how the law expired just in time for chimpie to do whatever the hell he wanted.

I'd rather suffer a hundred Ken Stars than 3,300 dead American Soldiers.

and prevent the fiasco that occurred with Rehnquist, Sentelle, Kay. It would also need to require removal of anyone appointed to the panel that is found to be utilizing unethical practices.

And if new-lead wins the popular vote, the new lead is picked by a 2%+ party that is smaller than the party that picked the last new lead, but certainly a different party. And you can vote for two choices.

great idea. not.

It was a dumb move to eliminate that law just in time for a repug to screw us over.

And look where we are now because of it.

Who is very likely to be a democrat? Do you see a pattern developing here? IP for Democratic regimes, nothing for Republican ones. How about we let the next president have at least a one term breather?