EXCERPT:
LEE: "Madam president, for reasons articulated by Justice Scalia in his classic opinion in Morrison v. Olson, prosecutorial authority of the United States belongs in the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice answers to the president of the United States. Its principal officers consist of people appointed by the president serving at the pleasure of the president after being confirmed by the United States Senate. This is a fundamental component of our liberty. The separation of powers protect us. It doesn't mean we're going to agree with what every president and every administration always does, but as Justice Scalia explains we cannot convert an office like this one. And office like the previously existing Office of Independent Counsel without creating a defacto 4th branch of government fundamentally undermining the principle of separation of powers that is so core to our liberty. And on that basis Madam president I object."