Congress begins considering whether to renew independent-counsel law.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: February 24, 1999| Author: Mishra, David Hess And Raja | Copyright information

WASHINGTON _ Republican lawmakers already didn't like it. Democrats, who had once championed the independent counsel act as a barrier to political interference in corruption probes, have had a change of heart.

And now the law that gave the nation Kenneth Starr and Lawrence Walsh, Monica Lewinsky and Iran-Contra, may be headed for a radical change if not the scrap heap.

Among many legal experts, the best thing to emerge from the aborted impeachment of Presiden...

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