 Authority for appointment of the current special counsel doesn't exist by law, but rather through a set of regulations put in place unilaterally by Attorney General Janet Reno in 1999. They don't have the force of law passed by Congress, signed by the President, and can be changed at any time by any Attorney General. While concurring in the majority opinion on the issue of presidential immunity, Justice Clarence Thomas, we pointed it out, wrote separately to raise the question of whether any law