Is This the End of Office of Special Counsel?
by Alan M. Dershowitz
July 25, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14595/office-of-special-counsel Ordinary prosecutors are not allowed to comment about why they decided not to prosecute the subject of an investigation. The Mueller Report, when made public, violated that salutary tradition. It contained negative information about people, including the president, who will have no opportunity to respond in a legal proceeding.
The report and the testimony introduced the novel and dangerous concept into our legal vocabulary: "Not exonerated."
From day one, I proposed an alternative: namely the appointment of a nonpartisan expert commission whose job it is to investigate the role of Russia in trying to influence American elections and to influence our American democratic processes. Like the 9/11 Commission, this Russia Commission would not be pointing prosecutorial fingers for past derelictions, but would be focused primarily on preventing Russia from continuing to influence our American political processes. Prosecutors, like the Special Counsel, operate behind closed doors and in secret. They hear only one side of the story.
