Back to the Impeachment Future
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By Kenneth W. Starr,
The expiration in 1999 of the independent counsel law was supposed to avoid situations like this.
It’s happening again. The Mueller report is leading to cries for impeachment. By virtue of special counsel Robert Mueller’s pivotal judgment to produce a lavishly detailed report plainly designed to find its way into the public domain, we have been transported back to the era of the independent-counsel law, which was allowed to expire in 1999 in the immediate wake of the impeachment and acquittal of President Clinton.
… the first 173 pages are unhelpful. A careful study of what I call the long introduction to the regulatorily required report should be reassuring to everyone who loves America. Time and again, the facts cry out: No collusion!
But everyone knows what’s looming ahead. The House is on a march toward articles of impeachment. Why? Because of the kind of report that Mr. Mueller chose to write while finding no collusion.
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