Special attention. (argument for eliminating office of special prosecutor)

From: National Review | Date: July 23, 1990 | Copyright information

TWO REPUBLICAN Presidents, to their cost, have acquiesced in Congress's desire to have a special prosecutor-a/k/a independent counsel-investigate the executive branch. So have congressional Republicans. Republicans seem to have a compulsion to prove they aren't partisan," a phobia that manifestly doesn't cramp the Democrats' style, and the results have been disastrous for the Republicans, worse yet for the balance of powers. Whether or not the special prosecutor is strictly uncons...

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