Word: generalize
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...difference between General Powell and hundreds of thousands of other recent retirees is that he is more famous. But the range of beneficial services, charitable works and programs contributed to--and often run by--folks who have finished their first careers is worthy of recognition...
Complaints about the statute are familiar: Too many people are potential targets because it covers so many levels of government; the threshold of evidence requiring the Attorney General to call for an independent counsel is far too low; there is little accountability for the lawyers heading the probes until the very end, after they've had vast resources and all the time in the world to stalk their quarry...
...prevent a repeat of the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon's firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox made people realize that investigators had to be walled off from the investigated. So the new statute gave a special three-judge panel the power to name independent counsels when the Attorney General said it was necessary and made the counsels virtually unfireable...
...which he was cleared. "Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?" he famously said when he was acquitted of other larceny and fraud charges that had forced him out of office. Another Reagan Administration official investigated (and eventually cleared) in a separate probe, Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson, battled the law's constitutionality all the way to the Supreme Court, where he lost...
...took a strong hand in crafting the original statute, may change its position in February, when its house of delegates will vote on an A.B.A. task-force report that recommends scrapping the law. If it must be kept, the task force argues, only the President, Vice President and Attorney General should be covered by it. Also, the Attorney General should have a role in selecting the independent counsels, and the Justice Department should not be tied to a hair-trigger threshold of evidence in deciding whether a counsel should be appointed. Other critics argue that the law should apply only...