Does he have the power to appoint an independent investigation into the violation of whistleblower protection laws? Does he have the power to impeach the cabinet member under whom the retaliation has occurred?
It’s time for us to stop playing softball. If we don’t have the power to enforce laws, they may as well not exist. This lawless regime is thumbing its nose at everything this country is supposedly about. If we let them get away with it, then this country has never really been about those things at all.
IOW, it’s time for us to decide who and what we are. If we are gutless and if real accountability to the law doesn’t exist, then this country is over and all the squawking about is just the flopping of a chicken that’s already had its head chopped off.
United States Office of the Independent Counsel was an independent prosecutor — distinct from the Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice — that provided reports to the Congress under 28 U.S.C. § 595. The office was terminated in 1999 and replaced by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel.