Independence In Addition To Accountability Inwards Investigations Of High-Level Officials

I've been working on 2 papers dealing alongside the constitutional pattern of permanent agencies charged alongside investigating high-level corruption, agencies that are mutual roughly the world. As alongside courts, the pattern issues involve achieving the appropriate combination of independence in addition to accountability. As a shorthand: Designers withdraw to figure out ways to avoid overzealousness past times the investigators spell reducing the peril of underenforcement or selective enforcement. (My electrical flow idea is that a multi-headed way rather than a unmarried investigator is the way to go.)

The immediate responses to the Comey firing enhance interesting questions almost the "design" issues when i is appointing a temporary investigator for a unmarried inquiry. My exclusively idea hither is a snarky i almost how the pattern issues are addressed inward States politics. There look to endure 2 principles at work. (1) Where the dependent plain of the investigation is a Republican, exclusively a Republican investigator volition get got plenty credibility to behave an investigation whose number volition endure broadly acceptable. (2) Where the dependent plain of the investigation is a Democrat, exclusively a Republican investigator volition get got plenty independence to behave an investigation whose number volition endure broadly acceptable. One senses that there's truly exclusively i regulation at work. [I position to i side the already circulating, fifty-fifty to a greater extent than snarky proffer that the President should nominate Merrick Garland to supersede Comey, or should endure named every bit the particular prosecutor/counsel.]