Re: "Who will investigate Presidental Crime if not the Special Prosecutor?"
Crimes by the President have been exposed before (I resume Teapot Dome and Watergate) by an inquiring press. The Watergate story was being tilled and reported by the Washington Post. Once in the Press the Congress could, if it wanted, investigate the published reports, with all the power that Starr has, and vote to impeach, if it saw fit. I resume this is one reason the Founders gave us Separation of Powers. Its worked for over 200 years.
The special prosecutor law is clearly out of hand and is leading to imbuing all political activity as criminal. It is as if, we vote for the head of the Executive Branch, but the real power behind the scenes is an unelected head of a special police unit, the Special Prosecutor, who is answerable to no one, with unlimited resources and little direction to what is an appropriate for investigate. This seems to me to be totally unconstitutional to invest such power in a "special prosecutor".
It has operated as a fishing expedition with ever, expanding lines of inquiry. In the Mike Espey (former Ag Secretary) case (involving some free football tickets from Tyson to Espey) they were investigating activity at Tyson that transpired during the time Espey had been a kid in grade school, for example and interviewing people who last been employed there 30 yrs before scattered in almost every state in the union. Meanwhile others in the government, Newt Gringrich, accepted free trips, hotels, meals, for himself, wife, and staff on a holiday to London all provided free by some company. About the Newt trip, one could read accounts of this in the press. I read nothing further about that. Maybe this is a customary perk and is fully legal, but football tickets are not.
Meanwhile, Mr. Espey will spend time in jail for accepting football tickets which were worth much less than Newt's perks. In the prime of his life, Espey's life is ruined. It does seem a little out of proportion, but this seems to be the nature of a special prosecutor. |
