Replies

Indeed. The following makes me wonder if the media ought to be examined equally as hard:

Congressional Record-Page S13251 9/19/91 Sen. Bob Dole ".Mr. President, I raise this issue for two reasons. One is to make it clear that this body should expect a very serious debate over reauthorization of the independent counsel statute, which expires next year. And the second reason is to point out the fact that pure hardball politics and not any desire for justice is usually the motivating factor behind the appointment of an independent counsel. If proof of this point were needed, all one has to do is listen to the silence coming from the other side of the aisle over the BCCI scandal. Here is what appears to be the juiciest of all scandals--one involving bribery, money laundering, and financial fraud spanning several continents. This is a big deal. Yet, those who have so quickly jumped on the independent counsel bandwagon before, are now nowhere to be found. The media, usually leading the drumbeat for an appointment, is also strangely silent. Where is the media? Why are not some in the media demanding a special prosecutor in the BCCI case? Someone a little more skeptical than I might suggest that the reason for this is that the overwhelming majority of names implicated in the scandal are Democrats. Chief among these is David Paul, financial angel to the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, and perpetrator of the Centrust Savings & Loans fiasco--a multibillion-dollar ripoff of the taxpayers..."