January 1994 - Attorney General Janet Reno appoints Robert Fiske Jr. as the independent counsel in charge of investigating financial irregularities in the dealings of the Whitewater property company. The Clintons, and their business partners, James and Susan McDougal, are implicated.
August 1994 - Fiske is replaced by the more conservative Kenneth Starr as the independent counsel investigating the Whitewater scandal.
January 16, 1998- Janet Reno, the US Attorney General, approves the Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's request for an expansion of the inquiry to include the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.
September 9, 1998 -- Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr releases his report to Congress. It has 11 possible grounds for impeachment. The House votes to make the 445-page report public.
-> Special counsels/prosecutors are fraught with dangers....last for years
No doubt, but if the DoJ is as rotten as it appears, it simply cannot be trusted to correct itself, and the process will certainly take years.