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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (468035)	9/30/2003 11:08:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

A more important question perhaps could be whether we as a country would be better off with an Independent Council Act. During the Clinton investigations, the second appointed council, Starr, went a bit over-board with an apparently endlessly open-ended investigation and ceiling-less rounds of funding requests... still, the benefit of having an outside investigator in cases of allegations against insiders is a real benefit. I believed at the time, and still do, that the problems in the authorizing act were technical... not conceptual. I believed that we would have be better off reforming the law - getting the budget problems in hand - and not tossing it overboard. I was pretty sure that, in some future administrations... we would come to regret abandoning that extra 'check and balance'.