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.

You have violated your obligations under the independent counsel statute and have unlawfully intruded on the power of impeachment.

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.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

The prosecution abused its power and violated its duty to go into the grand jury room and present the evidence fairly and accurately.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty