Bill Roper's Journal

As I understand it, she is just a *special* prosecutor, not an *independent* prosecutor.

In other words, if I'm understanding right, she still reports to Michael Mucazey (sorry if I've misspelled that), who was appointed by George Bush and who has done nothing to correct either the injustices perpetrated on Federal Prosecutors who refused to be used as political tools, or the presence of incompetent ideologues hired under his predecessor.

I see a problem there. I'm inclined to believe she's probably generally honest and good at her job, but when she's working under someone who has shown very little interest in really correcting the results of the abuses, I'm not sure she will be free to do her job properly.

I want an *independent* prosecutor. The kind the administration can't turn off when she discovers something inconvenient.