[alloysteel]

So, how did the Special Prosecutor get appointed for the Watergate investigation?

Seems like Richard Nixon, President, and John Mitchell, Attorney General, would have stood in the way, according to this take on the enabling legislation...

And Nixon only lost 18 and half minutes of a tape recording. Is this not VASTLY more huge?

[okie01]

So, how did the Special Prosecutor get appointed for the Watergate investigation?

Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor, was appointed by Elliott Richardson, Nixon's Attorney General.

Archibald Cox

Similarly, recall that, in the "Valerie Plame affair", GWB agreed to the appointment of a special counsel, whereupon Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed Patrick Fitzgerald to the post.