"Maybe I was the poster child for the repeal of the independent counsel statute," he said.

And decisions on such questions as the independent counsel statutes could certainly be lonely ones.

At the root of their conflict is a difference over how to apply the independent counsel statute.

The beauty of the independent counsel statute is its self-executing nature.

The first such error was the independent counsel statute itself.

I am absolutely opposed to the independent counsel statute.

The independent counsel statute has given us a creature outside the constitutional system.

As a result, the independent counsel statute was allowed to lapse in 1992.

It is his duty under the independent counsel statute to report any such evidence to the House.

The larger lesson is that we have been focusing too much on the independent counsel statute as the answer to political problems.