Instead of tapping a special prosecutor to investigate the House leadership’s handling of Mark Foley’s threat to congressional pages, the House ethics committee says they’ll form their own special investigative subcommittee to look at the page program in general.
Not good enough, says Rep. Joel Hefley (R-CO), who used to head up the ethics committee (until he was tossed out on his ear for being too tough on Tom DeLay). He told NPR yesterday that the committee should appoint a special counsel to investigate the matter.
Hefley said that he’s “been opposed to special counsels most of the time in the past,” but that “the high-level nature” of the Foley investigation warranted a special prosecutor or special task force of former members. The interview appears to have taken place before the ethics committee announced their own probe.
