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The original point of the Independent Counsel Act, which was passed in the wake of Watergate, was to prevent special prosecutors being fired by presidents.
Ms. Liao believes public pressure contributed to prosecutors being reluctant to press the heavier charge, while the local police were keen to do so.
FiveThirtyEight's Ben Casselman wonders whether the difference is based on jurors being more inclined to trust police; prosecutors being less inclined to make cases aggressively against police; or prosecutors being forced to bring weak cases against police, due to political pressure.We do not have the data to answer that question, and realistically, we never will.
The site "connected the dots and found a pattern of federal prosecutors being forced from office for failing to do the Bush administration's bidding," the Polk citation said.
In the case of the United States attorneys, Talking Points Memo linked to many local articles about federal prosecutors being forced from office and drew a national picture for readers.
"We depend on prosecutors being capable of doubt and exercising discretion," said Stephen Gillers, a professor of legal ethics at New York University and a former law school classmate of Mr. Giuliani's.
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