Peter Welch actually said...

That's politics, that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion.

You had to make a call that was based upon your view of the law, not your view of how it would affect the outcome of who would be the next C...

The prosecutor has really awesome power. The power to prosecute is the power to destroy and it has to be used with restraint.

This was a plan that had bipartisan support, RFS. It had the best of intentions, it had the worst of outcomes.