Posted on 02/25/2022 12:28:26 PM PST by Be Careful
Am hoping to solicit informed comments/answers re: the Durham Indictments. After Durham unseals his indictments, the targets are then referred for prosecution.
My questions: Who will oversee the prosecutions?
Can Durham retain control of the prosecutions, or does he have to refer that duty to the DOJ?
Thanks in advance for any professional insight into this question.
He doesn’t refer them for prosecution, he prosecutes them himself under the delegated authority he already has from DOJ
Garland gave him his budget for the entire fiscal year, so he can proceed if he so chooses
So Garland can kill the budget and hence the chance for prosecutions come October?
Gute got man! Don’t you know there’s a war on?
No time for that now!
In theory, the AG can kill it at any time if he really wants to.
The Special Counsel is sort of independent, but still is supposed to report periodically to the AG and the AG retains the power to revoke it at any time.
The power delegation is a bit complicated. Technically, the delegation does not rely on the Special Counsel regulation but merely makes reference to it.
This regulation is legally flawed, however it has been upheld by the courts in political decisions with patently bad legal reasoning.
If the Special Counsel regulation were to be struck down by an honest court, Barr’s original delegation to Durham would still survive and he crafted it with this in mind.
The delegation authority even assuming invalidity of the Special Counsel regulation also allows the AG to terminate the Special Counsel if he so chooses.
A Special Counsel has all the powers of the 93 US Attorneys.
The current DOJ is only interested in framing and railroading the right, so the criminal democrats will be just fine.
I believe the reason we are seeing these leaks against Hillary is the Democratic party wants her out of the game. The leaks were crafted to give her a taste of what could happen if she were to announce she’s running for office again. If she ignores the warning, then and only then, would any actions proceed with the blessings of the DOJ. This isn’t quite Kabuki theater but it’s certainly a tightly scripted play. It tells Hillary, or more likely Bill who will then use whatever influence he has on Hillary, to get the heck off the field, or else.
The Democrats are trying this ploy because any move against Hillary that’s out in the open will also have collateral damage in the party and amongst operatives that are still good, undamaged players. But the party feels that allowing Hillary another shot at the gold would cause so much damage they are willing, if reluctant, to take her to the mats. They’ll try to spin it as, “You see how honest we are?” But they know anybody who tries to directly target Hillary would suffer damage and she will take down a lot of others with her as that’s her only leverage.
Hillary will go down fighting and take as many with her as she can, because that’s the kind of person she is. If there’s a moral bone in her body, it’s because she tore it out of a good person and ate it.
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With that, along with a presidential pardon and a USSC reluctance to get involved, a comprehensive Special Counsel's Report made public prior to the next election may be the best that can be accomplished, at least in the near term.
Of course, Hillary yet holds copies of 900 FBI files. Even though many are no longer of value the ones on Biden could be pivotal.
Yeah, they’re almost 30 years old now.
What sealed indictments?
And she is not so cash strapped that she can’t afford back channel quality real time intel.
Boy, have you ever come to the wrong place.
Ultimately, the Attorney General is in control. The usual (but not required) practice though is that the independent counsel does his job with minimal interference from the Department of Justice because of the stink that would ensue otherwise. There is some reason to think that the recent disclosures in filings by Durham were to fend off interference from the Department of Justice and the Biden Administration.
In theory, the AG can kill it at any time if he really wants to.
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Or even if he doesn’t want to, if he’s ordered to.
Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed comments...very helpful
Your very thoughtful post has merit. Thank you for posting.
I fear you may be correct. Garland will put the kibosh on prosecutions, but he cannot easily muzzle Durham’s report
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