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.
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.
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.