CIA Tapes Destruction and Law

New York Times: Reports that an outside Prosecutor, John H. Durham has been bought in to look at the destruction of the CIA Tapes. The paper is never happy it writes the following, " Mr. Durham was not appointed as a special counsel in this case, a step sought by some Congressional Democrats. He will have less expansive authority than a special counsel and will report to the deputy attorney general rather than assume the powers of the attorney general, which he would have had as a special counsel. " This is a wise move by the Justice Department, just in case we have a Prosecutor like we had in the Libby Case, the Justice Department can make sure he keeps to brief, and deals with the actual case. Expect many a story about this case in the NYT, its Watergate in their eyes.