An independent counsel, with all the powers of that office, is what we need.
The July 30 hearing will focus on Reno's failure thus far to seek an independent counsel.
But that's one of the few ways in which he diverges from the independent counsel.
We stressed that someone needed to work the case, the Justice Department or an independent counsel.
Tests results are to be reported directly and only to Independent Counsel Ken Starr's office.
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The independent counsel then proposed to Ms. Currie that her memory differed from Ms. Lewinsky.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
Today, the independent counsel has written 445 pages of conclusions that read like an indictment.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
Because, as the weight of evidence diminishes, so must conclusions the independent counsel has done.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
Briefly then to what was happening on the front of the independent counsel's office.
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This is the fifth independent counsel requested to investigate members of the Clinton administration.
The powers of the independent counsel will be narrowed, if the office survives at all.
The open-ended powers of the independent counsel, some people argue, may need to be restricted.
Stein is the former independent counsel who investigated and cleared one-time Attorney General Ed Meese.
The sequence of events suggests that Independent Counsel Starr deliberately delayed requesting the expansion of his jurisdiction.
Another is momentum: An independent counsel would take time and take some air out of the story.
That so-called Republican juggernaut is now trying to roll over Reno's resistance to seeking an independent counsel.
The lawyers working for the Office of the Independent Counsel, they were in charge of this investigation.
Passionate professionals thinking clearly will seek independent counsel and advice to continually gut-check and refine their thinking.
Justice Department officials had hoped that allegations about leaks from the independent counsel's office would fade away.
Attorneys for the president, the trial defendants and the independent counsel may be present for Clinton's testimony.
In addition, the independent counsel must now complete a written report of his finding for the court.
I'd like to make one additional point about the office of the independent counsel and the Starr prosecutors.
Parenthetically, this, too, is an allegation that the Office of Independent Counsel did not make in its referral.
Indeed, this existed when Miss Lewinsky described the relationship to the confidants described in the independent counsel's referral.
"That's done all the time" in criminal investigations, said Julie Meyers, an associate independent counsel on Starr's staff.
Attorney General Janet Reno may yet appoint an independent counsel to look into the DNC's financial fund-raising overseas.
No matter how cast, as the independent counsel first did or as majority staff will label it now.
CNN: Transcript: Schippers, Lowell briefings before Judiciary panel, part 2
From the beginning of the proceeding McDougal called the trial a "personal vendetta" by Independent Counsel Ken Starr.
Howard's ruling could set an important precedent for any other trials resulting from the independent counsel's Whitewater investigation.
The independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, is likely to present a report to Congress at some point next month.
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