by Carl M. Cannon

About the author: Carl M. Cannon is the White House correspondent for the Baltimore Sun daily newspaper.

No equestrian statue of James H. Lake will ever adorn a city square. He is a Washington lobbyist, not a war hero. Still, now that Lake has fallen into the hellish clutches of a special prosecutor, here’s an idea for how his fellow Republicans could honor his long service to Ronald Reagan and their party: They could end or at least sharply curtail the special prosecutor system.

This monument to Lake will be controversial. Some will object that a Special Prosecutor Repeal Act should be dedicated to those who really inspired it: the independent counsels themselves, with their messianic complexes, their multimillion-dollar spending jags, and their years-long vendettas. Men like Iran- Contra...