Freep CNN Poll: Should a special prosecutor be appointed?

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[fleur-de-lis]

Should a special prosecutor be appointed to direct the Enron investigation?

[Shermy]

To prosecute what? If there's crimes (no doubt) that's waht the attorney general is for. Plus thousands of people are suing them - let their lawyers fish it out.

[concerned about politics]

Doesn't there have to have been a crime in Washington? Enron can use the regular courts.

[fleur-de-lis]

URGENT help needed! See poll!

[concerned about politics]

One "no" vote here.

[Hunble]

YES, YES, YES!!!!

Unlike the Clintonites, we believe in honest government. If the Bush administration is innocent, a Special Prosecutor will prove it.

However, in the process, I have a sneaky suspiction that the more they did, the sooner Clinton will go to jail!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Good grief. There's a bunch of Dem's over there, voting. We're WAY behind.

[Dominic Harr]

I vote, "NO".

Let the regular prosecutors handle this, unless and until there is some reason to suspect any tampering by the administration.

A 'Special Prosecutor' will only politicize a criminal investigation.

[Dominic Harr]

I use to hang out at the CNN boards, during the impeachment. Talking to people I agree with bores me, I tend to search out the partisans I disagree with and argue incessently with them.

It's literally 80% D party die-hards over there.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I tend to search out the partisans I disagree with and argue incessently with them.

Just for fun, did you ever "win" any arguments? I KNOW you won, but did they know????

[Right_in_Virginia]

IMHO, we've got to shake off the Clinton years. Not everything needs a special prosecutor for justice to be served.

Let the Justice Department and the SEC handle this.

In fact, pull Congress out of this, too. I don't understand how Congress expects they can call witnesses with an intensive criminal investigation underway and NOT hear each of them plead "the fifth" before their esteemed committees.

Congress is spinning its wheels, creating a circus, and jeopardizing the minuscule confidence investors currently have in the stock market.

[concerned about politics]

The dumocraps are the ones trying to make a big deal of of this. Bush did nothing wrong. Why bother?

But, if they did bring in a prosecuter, maybe ( maybe not) they would go back through the Clinton years. If I knew they'd investigate the whole Enron deal back from the beginning, I'd vote for it.
Otherwise, it's a waste of money. I heard we were running a deficet, Social Security is in bad shape, children need an education, and the elderly need medicine. The dumocraps want to spend money on this? Now?
Who's gonna pay for their political drooling?

[Dominic Harr]

I KNOW you won, but did they know????

Well, there were a few reasonable folks that would allow for the possibility that he had broken laws covering things up and what-not. But no, no one ever admitted that he should be *fired* for actually boinking the hired help and using the powers of his office as a personal 'dating service'.

I'm sick like that, but I really enjoy getting in the trenches with partisans who I disagree with.

[concerned about politics]

CNN just announced following up on an ealier report on CNBC that there will be no special prosecutor appointed by the Justice to investigate the Enron case.
The liberals on television were then screaming that the current man in charge of the investigation after Ashcroft recused himself worked in Houston as a lawyer with some of the principals involved here.

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The poll no longer matters.

[concerned about politics]

CNN just announced following up on an ealier report on CNBC that there will be no special prosecutor appointed by the Justice to investigate the Enron case.
The liberals on television were then screaming that the current man in charge of the investigation after Ashcroft recused himself worked in Houston as a lawyer with some of the principals involved here.

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The poll no longer matters.

[Russell Scott]

When the government cleans up its own act, then I will begin to listen to them tell others how they should clean up theirs. If the government was a public corporation, they would have had to declare bankruptcy a hundred times over. Lets start with the phony Social Security trust fund, and go from there. I want a government that leads by example, not hypocrisy to the power of 10.

[concerned about politics]

PS...It was the Dems who did away with the special prosecuter law after Ken Star.
If they want a prosecuter, talk to Clinton. He did away with them. Bwaahahahaha.

[Dominic Harr]

Somebody heard us . . .

[unamused]

My God, all special prosecutors do is pry into a president's private matters (Lanni Davis, sometime in the 80's)

[pgkdan]

Unlike the Clintonites, we believe in honest government. If the Bush administration is innocent, a Special Prosecutor will prove it.

Since when do we rely on Government Prosecutors to prove our innocence?