THE PERIL OF PROSECUTORIAL PASSION

What do you call someone who works in secret with a multimillion-dollar budget, pressures wives to testify against their husbands, compels state agencies to turn over the names of thousands of workers who might have a grudge against their employer--all in order to learn whether a Cabinet member got some free football tickets and a few other gifts? The answer: independent counsel Donald Smaltz, who has become a walking, talking argument for changing the way this nation investigates its high public officials.

Whitewater's Kenneth Starr is the independent counsel Democrats love to hate. But Smaltz has the distinction of making even...

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