Bill Keller (NY Times) shows once again what an asshole he is...
Bring Back Ken Starr
Republicans are howling for President Obama to name a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups. The president should call their bluff.
The president should announce that he has told the Justice Department to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility. The list of candidates could start with Kenneth Starr, who chased down the scandals, real and imagined, of the Clinton presidency. It might include Patrick Fitzgerald, who was special counsel in the Valerie Plame affair, winning the conviction of Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, and who has successfully prosecuted two corrupt governors of Illinois, one from each party.
The special counsel (that is the formal term) should be assured an all-access pass to the people and records he needs to determine whether the treatment of conservative groups seeking special tax status was a) a ham-handed shortcut by overworked and badly guided bureaucrats, b) a systematic persecution of political opponents, or c) some combination of the two. He should be charged with asking who knew what when, and whether the subsequent handling of the matter amounted to clumsiness or conspiracy. The investigation should work on a reasonable deadline – concluding well before the 2014 mid-terms – and the results should be made public in full.
More at:
http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/bring-back-ken-starr/?hp
Yes, I know he says that Obama should call the repubs' bluff - but Ken Starr? Really?
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