A special prosecutor, though nominally working for the attorney general, would have the kind of independence needed to really go down all the pathways that are going to emerge as corruption at the IRS – and perhaps elsewhere in the administration – is uncovered.
Surely Attorney General Holder can’t credibly collaborate with the FBI, as he has vowed to do, to perform the investigation. Nobody who is a Republican trusts Holder. This investigation has to be viewed as unimpeachable to both sides.
Okay, give me a break, I used the word unimpeachable, not impeachable.
Surely not Jack Lew, widely regarded within the GOP as a political animal installed at Treasury to reliably handle for Obama just this kind of problem. The whole IRS thing is really going to interrupt Lew’s coursework in financial markets, by the way.
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