Justice sans politics

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is considering appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Bush administration crimes.  This very welcome news will no doubt meet with protests from the usual suspects (Republican hacks) calling it a partisan witch-hunt.  So, I propose: why not take the politics out of it?  Perform a thorough investigation but embargo results until the second half of November, 2012.

Update: Greenwald thinks this may be the worst of both worlds because it doesn't go after higher-level Bush officials and would treat John Yoo's work as the settled law of the time, i.e. only prosecute those who went beyond it. Maybe he's right, but I still think some level of accountability would be better than none--and if people really did exceed Yoo's bounds then, well, aren't those people worse than Yoo?