🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <rich.724034533@pencil>, rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) writes:
|> In <1992Dec10.185107.10925@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
|> ]Recent trials of government officials, and recent use of independent
|> ]prosecutors, whatever one thinks of the substance, go a long way
|> ]toward compelling caution by those who would abuse their privileged
|> ]and trusted positions in the FBI and intelligence services.
|> 
|> The justice dept did everything it its power to impede walsh's investigation
|> in the iran-contra affair, finally resorting to the "national security"
|> argument to suppress evidence.
|> At any rate, the law which established the office of the independent
|> prosecutor (a post-watergate reform) was allowed to lapse this year.
|> As of 1993, the independent prosecutor will be a thing of the past.

Bill Clinton has announced his support for reinstituting independent
prosecutor legislation in the next session of Congress.

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