Secrets of an Independent Counsel

About

Shows how independent counsels work by tracing sitting independent counsel Donald Smaltz's investigation of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Using interviews with Smaltz and other key participants, it shows how the investigation proceeded and opened up related matters, and the counsel's encounters with federal powers. Talks about the issue of whether the twenty-year-old institution of independent counsel should continue.

1 videocassette (55 min.) : 1/2 in

VHS

Correspondent, Peter J. Boyer ; editor, Kenneth Lewis ; director of photography, Ben McCoy

Videocassette release of a Frontline program, originally broadcast May 19, 1998

Date on container: c1997

Correspondent, Peter J. Boyer

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Archive

Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault

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Credit

Peter J Boyer, Michael Kirk, Kirk Documentary Group., WGBH Educational Foundation., PBS Video.

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

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