Independent counsel investigations

From: The American Criminal Law Review | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

In the wake of growing mistrust of government integrity that culminated with the resignation of President Nixon, Congress enacted the Ethics in Government Act1 in the late 1970s to promote greater confidence and accountability within the federal government. Since its inception, the Independent Counsel statute has been simultaneously revered and reviled, with the party controlling the White House continually decrying the statute as overbroad, expensive, partisan and vague, and the party outside the White House trumpeting the statute as a necessary check on abuses of power by ...

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