He'll run out the clock on statutes of limitation, make no charges, and his final report will declare the Biden's as pure and innocent as the wind-driven snow.
It's insultingly obvious.
Posted on 08/11/2023 8:49:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Immediately after the announcement by Attorney General Merrick Garland that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss had requested to be appointed Special Counsel, news cameras caught up with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) at the Iowa State Fair for his take. Fox News didn’t catch the first few words of his statement, but here is a transcription of the rest:
…[a] year ago we sent a letter saying we should have a Special Counsel. So the short answer to your question is, it’s about time. On the other hand, I have some question about Weiss doing it, because Johnson and I sent all of this material that we had from the Cathay Bank in regard to the payments that were made to Hunter Biden, and we don’t know what they did with them, and we know from the IRS whistleblowers that they never did anything with the 1023 document that I got released. So you just wonder how thorough Weiss is doing it.
And then you have this plea agreement that fell through, and there’s speculation now that the Justice Department can’t work out another plea agreement, so they’re gonna have to go to trial. So is the special counsel set up to interfere with going to a trial right away, or are they ready to – there’s some other reason for doing it.
And since this administration has exemplified so much political bias in the FBI and the Department of Justice, I think there’s reasons to raise questions. You can’t do one thing for a Democrat and another thing for a Republican, because the constitution requires equal — equal justice.
Mediaite clipped the interview but they don’t provide a way to embed it here, and Fox News hasn’t made it available either on their site or on YouTube. I’m only linking to Mediaite so our readers can view the video themselves and not take my word for what Grassley said, but the way Mediaite has framed this is, as usual, terrible.
Grassley has since issued a formal statement from his office declaring that Weiss isn’t the right person for the Special Counsel job and pledging to keep up his investigations in the Senate. His statement reads:
Since at least 2019, the FBI and Justice Department have possessed glaring evidence of criminality involving the Biden family’s business ventures. Despite repeated assurances that U.S. Attorney Weiss had full authority and independence to pursue all the facts, whistleblowers and a botched sweetheart plea deal told a much different story. Given the underhanded plea deal negotiated by the U.S. Attorney from President Biden’s home state, it’s clear Mr. Weiss isn’t the right person for the job.
The special counsel has a duty to pursue all the facts and provide greater transparency about the true scope of his review. There’s no longer any excuse to ignore critical details that were left out of the plea deal – many of which have long been in the public domain. I’ll continue to pursue the facts as I have for years, and Congress is not going to tolerate further delay tactics and obstructive conduct by the Justice Department.
Garland’s appointment of Weiss is one of the slimier things that’s occurred during his tenure, and that’s saying a lot. Weiss has intentionally ignored evidence, cut investigators out of briefings, and then took them off the case. And we don’t know for sure yet, but it sure seems like Weiss was calling the shots to not bring criminal charges against Hunter Biden (at least until the IRS whistleblowers forced his hand) and to keep investigators away from Joe Biden, while claiming that it was “Main DOJ” telling him what he had to do.
It seems like we’re all involved in a real-life “Who’s on First” scam being perpetrated by Merrick Garland and David Weiss, designed to keep responsibility shifting and accountability from occurring until the clock has completely run down.
The Republicans need to pick a “special counsel” to investigate Weiss. I’m just surprised Weiss beat out all the Jamaican and Indian Feddie women for the job.
So now is your chance. Don’t fund DOJ/FBI in 2024 and they are shut down. All you have to do is nothing. Refuse to pass a bill that has funding for the FBI or DOJ or allows any other agency to spend money doing the things instead. It’s simple. The do-nothing republicans control the house. Well, just do nothing. We’re waiting. Shut the corrupt bushtards down. You have to pay district court judges salaries, but you don’t have to provide any money for the federal courts to operate. Do the right thing. Do what you are good at. Do nothing. Shut it down.
First off, as Andrew McCarthy and others have pointed out, legally, a special counsel should not only be a person with a “reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking” but a person who isn’t working for the administration. As the relevant part of the special counsel law explicitly says: “The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.”
Then again, whether Weiss’s appointment is legal or not, the entire idea of a special counsel – and I’m no fan, in general — is to conduct an independent investigation when cases are hampered by conflicts of interest. Yet here we are.
Weiss has already slow-walked the investigation to ensure the statute of limitations had lapsed on Hunter’s most egregious tax and FARA charges.
Weiss signed off on a plea deal that would have granted Hunter immunity for charges related to guns, taxes, and who knows what else, ensuring that the president also avoided scrutiny. The unprecedentedly wide-ranging deal was so ridiculous that Judge Maryellen Noreika nixed it.
Weiss’s public contentions regarding his role, in that case, have been contradicted by credible IRS whistleblowers. They testified under oath that the prosecutor told them he asked to be appointed special counsel at least twice and that he sought to bring federal charges against Hunter in California and DC but was turned consistently turned down by Biden’s DOJ.
Each of these incidents should disqualify Weiss from being named special counsel. And yet here we are. Not exactly surprising, I guess, considering the CORRUPT DOJ’s mission seems to be protecting the Bidens.
First off, as Andrew McCarthy and others have pointed out, legally, a special counsel should not only be a person with a “reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking” but a person who isn’t working for the administration. As the relevant part of the special counsel law explicitly says: “The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.”
Then again, whether Weiss’s appointment is legal or not, the entire idea of a special counsel – and I’m no fan, in general — is to conduct an independent investigation when cases are hampered by conflicts of interest. Yet here we are.
Weiss has already slow-walked the investigation to ensure the statute of limitations had lapsed on Hunter’s most egregious tax and FARA charges.
Weiss signed off on a plea deal that would have granted Hunter immunity for charges related to guns, taxes, and who knows what else, ensuring that the president also avoided scrutiny. The unprecedentedly wide-ranging deal was so ridiculous that Judge Maryellen Noreika nixed it.
Weiss’s public contentions regarding his role, in that case, have been contradicted by credible IRS whistleblowers. They testified under oath that the prosecutor told them he asked to be appointed special counsel at least twice and that he sought to bring federal charges against Hunter in California and DC but was turned consistently turned down by Biden’s DOJ.
Each of these incidents should disqualify Weiss from being named special counsel. And yet here we are. Not exactly surprising, I guess, considering the CORRUPT DOJ’s mission seems to be protecting the Bidens.
Democrats prosecute theirs.
They must have spent at least a month talking over the illegal aspects here of Weiss being appointed. I think it’s just a drag-out feature....forcing the House/Senate into a delay trying to challenge this. Even if you went to challenge this...it’d take what...maybe a year to get this to the Supreme Court?
Part of me wants to suggest that Biden just ordered it done this way.
The DOJ will claim there’s “an ongoing investigation” and they can’t talk about it. That’s what they’ve been doing for the last two years on other Congressional investigations.
Sure you can boys and girls, “On going investigation”!
The US is the world’s most corrupt government.
Corrupt government is an oxymoron. Been that way since Sumer.
If you’re in good with the God-King du jour, you get favors.
Drop dead fossil. You’ll do nothing like your POS carcass has done for the last 50 years.
When Hunter’s plea deal was declared nulls and void by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, Biden’s Lawyers looked for an alternative method to shield Hunter. It was prosecutor Wise who set up that flawed plea deal which would have shielded Hunter from future indictments. Now Wise has been selected as a Special Council with the power to shield Hunter more directly by controlling the evidence. Do they think we are so stupid that we can’t figure out what they are doing?
This whole influence peddling case has similarities to the Nixon cover-up of the Watergate break-in. When the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress, Nixon resigned. Joe Biden’s pay for play enterprise has bee described by the The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1, et seq. (”FCPA”):
“Enacted for the purpose of making it unlawful for certain classes of persons and entities to make payments to foreign government officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business. Specifically, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA prohibit the willful use of the mails or any means of instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of any offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of money or anything of value to any person, while knowing that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to a foreign official to influence the foreign official in his or her official capacity, induce the foreign official to do or omit to do an act in violation of his or her lawful duty, or to secure any improper advantage in order to assist in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person.”
FCPA violations can result in imprisonment of up to five years, criminal penalties of up to $100,000, and civil penalties of up to $10,000.
He'll run out the clock on statutes of limitation, make no charges, and his final report will declare the Biden's as pure and innocent as the wind-driven snow.
It's insultingly obvious.
Trump thought this guy was good enough to appoint him to the bench. I also remember that when trump got a special counsel to investigate him, many said what about hunter? Well they got their wish. He’s being investigated along with trump. Is it that nobody is happy these days all?
What you are citing there is a set of internal DOJ regulations that carry no legal weight and can be overridden at will by the Executive Branch of government.
Grassley has since issued a formal statement
Well that should make things better huh Moe.
That regulation I cited is in the Code of Federal Regulations (also known As CFR ).
The executive branch is required to follow the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The CFR is a compilation of all the rules and regulations issued by federal agencies in the United States. It covers a wide range of topics, including everything from environmental protection to labor standards. The executive branch, which includes the President and various federal agencies, is responsible for enforcing and implementing these regulations.
And here’s what it says:
The qualifications clearly state: “The Special Counsel shall be *selected from outside* the United States government.”
That is in 28 CFR 600.3
See here:
If the DOJ can just ignore a federal regulatory code, what’s to stop it from ignoring ANY code that it doesn’t like?
Congress should look into this and DEMAND that the DOJ follow the code and based on this, DISQUALIFY David Weiss.
“Congress should look into this and DEMAND that the DOJ follow the code and based on this, DISQUALIFY David Weiss.”
I’ll go one better than that. The Congress and We, the People should demand that Garland, who defied the code and ergo, the law, be immediately fired and replaced with someone that actually will follow the code and the law of this land. Nice dream, right? They’ll get away with this just like they’ve gotten away with everything else in this suddenly surreal world and nightmare we’re trapped in.
True ... the CFR is a compilation of all the rules and regulations issued by Federal agencies in the United States.
But those regulations are not issued by Congress. They are issued by Federal agencies that operate under the authority of the Executive Branch (i.e., the President). This means they many of them -- the ones that have no impact on anything outside the internal workings of the Executive Branch -- can be changed or ignored at will, and there is no recourse for anyone to challenge it.
Here's a perfect example: The position of Deputy U.S. Attorney General was never established by Congress. It only exists because the U.S. Attorney General created it out of thin air in 1950. The only legal provision related to this office is that the Deputy AG must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate (a requirement that was imposed by Congress long after the position was created). The President of the United States is under no obligation to name anyone to that post. He can leave it vacant if he wants. He can eliminate it tomorrow if he wants.
Under the internal rules of succession established by the U.S. Department of Justice (NOT by Congress), the Deputy AG becomes the acting AG if there is a vacancy in the AG's office. Because this succession is established within the Executive Branch and not by law (i.e., a statute passed by Congress), the President can ignore this at will and change the succession protocol any time he damn well pleases.
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