# Secrets of an Independent Counsel

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

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1998
- By: Peter J Boyer, Michael Kirk, Kirk Documentary Group., WGBH Educational Foundation., PBS Video.
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/SecretsofanIndependentCouncil)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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