“I resign for a fundamental reason. Against my strong advice, you decided to depart from your usual professional decision-making by accepting the invitation of the House Judiciary Committee to appear ... and serve as an aggressive advocate for the proposition that the evidence ... demonstrates that the president committed impeachable offenses.”
“As independent counsel you have only one narrow duty under the statute relating to the House's power of impeachment. That one duty ... is to objectively provide for the House substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for impeachment.”