July 25, 2007

Again, Bullwinkle?

That Special Prosecutor trick never works!

But it would be great for l’Affaire Gonzales. AP:

WASHINGTON - Angry senators suggested a special prosecutor should investigate misconduct at the Justice Department, accusing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday of deceit on the prosecutor firings and President Bush's eavesdropping program.

I choked when I heard Sen. Arlen Specter (RINO - PA) suggesting it. It's a bad idea to begin with (cf Fitzgerald, Starr), but especially worrisome when there has been no crime.

Politics Posted by jk at July 25, 2007 4:43 PM

I'd love to see Congress take the President to court. (SCOTUS, natch)

Then we'd settle this separation of powers debate.

Posted by: AlexC at July 25, 2007 5:50 PM

The best part of Specter's Special Prosecutor threat was that he threatened the Attorney General himself with the spectre (no pun intended) of "the Attorney General has the power to appoint a Special Prosecutor..." or someone else could do it, he added.

Posted by: johngalt at July 26, 2007 2:59 PM

The WSJ had a nice editorial today on this. I love the lede:

Here we go again. Democrats in Congress have made little headway in their own investigations into the non-scandal over the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys last year, so they've hit upon another strategy: Get the Justice Department to do the investigating for them. And right on cue, Republican Senator Arlen Specter has joined the call for a special counsel to investigate the dismissals. Now, there's a truly bad idea.

"Right on cue." They assert that a "pinata" AG will be better for the administration than investigations, prosecutors, and conformation hearings.

Posted by: jk at July 26, 2007 3:20 PM | What do you think? [3]