A LOOK AT...The of Independent Counsel; The Problem Isn't in the Starrs But in a Misguided Law From: The Washington Post | Date: February 22, 1998| Author: Gerard E. Lynch | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The independent counsel seemed like a good idea at the time, and still seems right to many people. Because the prosecutors of the Department of Justice report to the attorney general, and ultimately to the president, the assumption is they have a conflict of interest when a criminal investigation implicates the president's closest advisers, or even the president himself. So Congress's solution was to take that investigation away from the professional prosecutors, and create instead an i...

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