Independent counsel
Subtitle: the law and the investigations
By: Charles A. Johnson and Danette Brickman.
Contributors: Brickman, Danette, 1955-
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: United States. Office of Independent Counsel -- History.; Special prosecutors -- United States.; Governmental investigations -- United States.; Corruption investigation -- United States.
Description: The authors analyze the origins, evolution, functions and dissolution of the office of the independent counsel, created in the late-1970s to investigate and prosecute alleged executive misconduct in the federal government. They provide an overview of how executive misconduct was handled in the 18th, 19th and early-20th centuries, and then review the Watergate investigations which led to passage of the first independent counsel law in 1978. A summary of each of the 20 independent counsel investigations is followed by a chapter on the dissolution of the law in 1999, regulations which replaced the expired law, and possible ways to handle future alleged executive misconduct.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-342) and index.
Table of contents: title: Executive misconduct; title: The Watergate investigations; title: Precursors to independent counsel legislation, 1973-1978; title: The struggle to balance discretion, independence, and accountability : legislation, 1978-1994; title: Independent counsel investigations, 1978-2000; title: The end of the Independent Counsel Law.