McKay, is looking at Meese's involvement in three cases and Lawrence Walsh, yet another special prosecutor, wants to know what Meese knew about the Iran-contra affair. Stein, looked into charges regarding Meese's personal finances and found no basis for a prosecution - no indictment, but hardly an accolade. But he has become something of a Washington cottage industry for itinerant special prosecutors. Strictly speaking, Meese is guilty of nothing. Meese, now accused four times of impropriety, has in his own terms become his own accuser.
''If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect,'' Meese said, forgetting about trial by jury.
In a preposterous statement, Attorney General Edwin Meese III once implied that all criminal suspects are guilty.
