Garland's special counsel appointment more sinister than just Getting Trump

American Thinker ^ | 19 Nov, 2022 | Monica Showalter

[MtnClimber]

The Biden administration's appointment of a special counsel is a seemingly useless move except when it is read as an attempt to shield Biden from congressional scrutiny and pick off GOP House members to flip Congress to the Democrats.

Even as the nakedly political aspect of Attorney General Merrick Garland's naming of a a special counsel to investigate President Trump is obvious enough, there are some puzzling aspects.

Why, for example, is the Biden administration doing this after all of the ongoing investigations against President Trump have manifestly failed? Garland claimed that both aspects of the special counsel's investigation would focus on President Trump, one of which would be his role in the January 6 incident at the Capitol, and the other on his personal papers dispute dating from the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last August. January 6 has been investigated ad nauseum by Trump's biggest opponents in Congress and come up empty, and just days ago, the FBI sheepishly admitted that its unprecedented SWAT-style raid on the former president's Mar-a-Lago home in search of stolen nuclear secrets hyped in the press was a nothingburger, they found nothing. (Wonder how much they paid their informant for that bum tip and who the heck put that scammer on payroll?)

Obviously, they don't want these bids to fail, they don't want the January 6 commission to see its demise with the incoming Congress, and they desperately want their raid to be justified by a prosecutor who can find something, anything, to pin on Trump as he prepared to challenge Joe Biden for the presidency in 2024. Joe, who had to have had foreknowledge of this appointment, made it clear four days ago that the aim was not to find anything out regarding Trump

[MtnClimber]

Another of the endless witch hunts.

[hardspunned]

Anyone wanna bet Andrew Weissmann won’t be running this one too?

[CivilWarBrewing]

IMPEACH MERITLESS GARBAGE.

[jmaroneps37]

Won’t Meritless Garland be surprised when Jim Jordan sits him down and asked him about his using his office to threaten school boards to make them but his daughters company’s crappy textbooks?

[euram]

You can bet that if there is even a hint of a possible impeachment hearing into Garland and Mayorkas it will be met with accusations of “anti-Semitism”, you can count on that.

[inchworm]

Yep they will try to associate and wrap up key congressman in this

[Bratch]

Biden DOJ Assigns Special Counsel to Investigate Republicans in Congress and President Trump for Insurrection, Additionally Investigate Trump for DOJ Defined Classified Documents and Obstruction

November 18, 2022 | Sundance | 94 Comments

Okay, first things first.  CTH will not play the pretending game or structure the discussion of the special counsel appointments from the MSM references.  Instead, we will stick to the facts as they are presented, explain the events as they are factually reflected within the actual documents, and avoid the pretending constructs.

DATA Links: 

~ (1) Merrick Garland DOJ Statement on Appointment of Special Counsel 

~ (2) pdf of Legal Appointment 

~ (3) Statement of Jack Smith upon Appointment 

~ (4) Transcript of AG Merrick Garland Public Announcement.

The overarching Lawfare framework has been transparently created by President Obama’s former White House Legal Counsel and current U.S. Asst Attorney General Lisa Monaco.  To wit, earlier this afternoon Joe Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, announced the appointment of DOJ Attorney Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate two specific areas:

• First, to investigate current republican members of congress (House and Senate), former President and current candidate Donald J Trump, former Trump administration officials, former White House staff, and other individuals, groups and organizations for their role in supporting an insurrection on January 6, 2021, against the incoming administration of President-Elect Joe Biden.  In essence, the J6 investigation – with an emphasis on congress – transfers to Special Counsel Jack Smith:

The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021, as well as any matters that arose or might arise directly from this investigation or that are within the scope of [Special Counsel Regulations 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a)]. (pdf)

This is an extension of the January 6th Committee special investigation that transfers the committee’s investigative findings, ie phone records, text messages, transcripts, emails, prior testimony and all evidentiary records, into the newly appointed Special Counsel.

However, all prior and current DOJ prosecutions against citizen individuals will remain within the control and direction of Main Justice.  This structure free’s up Jack Smith to target the new republican controlled congressional members, their staff, families and/or communication network.   Main Justice keeps focus on the citizen insurrectionists, Jack Smith now appointed to go after the public officials.

J6 Committee staff, committee investigators, FBI agents and DOJ lawyers will now transfer from the committee to the special counsel office. Watch. (More on why later)

• Second – and this is ancillary to the first priority – DAG Lisa Monaco has written, and AG Garland has appointed, Jack Smith to target Donald Trump with the same special counsel process previously used by Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann.

The Special Counsel is further authorized to conduct the ongoing investigation referenced and described in the United States’ Response to Motion for Judicial Oversight and Additional Relief, Donald J Trump v. United States, No. 9:22-CV-81294-AMC (S.D. Fla. Aug. 30, 2022) (ECF No. 48 at 5- 13), as well as any matters that arose or may arise directly from this investigation or that are within the scope of [Special Counsel Regulation 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a)].

The Trump Mar-a-Lago document investigation (the proverbial nothingburger – just like Trump/Russia) transfers to the Special Counsel office, along with an intended angle to look for an obstruction of justice charge (just like Mueller).   This is Robert Mueller 2.0 using Special Counsel Jack Smith.

The Trump-centric part of the special counsel appointment, the part that everyone is focusing on, is ancillary to the real purpose of the appointment.  However, that said, all investigative resources from Main Justice and the FBI will transfer to Jack Smith as they did when Crossfire Hurricane transferred to Robert Mueller.  The investigative people will transfer along with the investigative evidence.

Duplicating history, all of the DC elements of the UniParty, both Democrats and Republicans, will sing the praises of Jack Smith as an honorable man, beyond reproach, blah, blah, blah.   If you want to stop playing the pretending game, just pay attention to the people praising him, and THOSE voices are the bad guys.

As you can see from the simple (non-pretending) explanation of what is being done, the lawfare process become clear.   Everything congress may now begin to question falls under the protective blanket of an “ongoing investigation,” exactly as we predicted.  Plus, you get the additional Lawfare elements of congressional leadership under investigation which provides an entirely new ‘conflict of interest dynamic’ to the political equation.

Then you have the congressional representatives under investigation and search warrants on their phones, text messages, emails, etc…. AND the added benefit of using DOJ-NSD defined terms of “national security threat” to gain FISA warrants on an entire incoming congressional delegation.  How slick is that? 

This also explains why Nancy Pelosi did not resign from congress, but only stepped down from her leadership role.  The timing of mid-November (today) gives Smith time to get all his midterm counter-offensive ducks in a row before his republican targets take office in January.

All of the congressional J6 and DOJ main justice teams will now assemble in new DC offices to set up the 2023 targeting operation.  The announcement was made today, but the planning of the construct has been in place for months, contingent upon the number of actual House seats that could flip.  The Lawfare design is transparent when you stop looking at the obfuscation reporting from mainstream media.

Primary goal, create enough of a legal mess as to obstruct any republican legislative effort against the Biden White House.  Additionally, if Smith’s DC team can pick-off a few republican House members under charges of “supporting an insurrection“, the political power will revert back to the Democrats in office.

Jack Smith’s curriculum vitae as a lawyer experienced in international government law, think about tribunals for throwing government, then becomes a clarifying skillset.

Think of it like the legal ideology of the United Nations (democracy as defined by progressives) prosecuting members of the United States government for acts of rebellion under the framework of a constitutional republican form of government they abhor.  That’s Jack Smith.

In addition, the same ideological Lawfare elements will be targeting the threat represented by U.S. nationalist politician Donald J Trump.   It’s like The Great Reset crew inserting an operative inside a corrupt and friendly United States Dept of Justice, with the intent to remove the threat Donald J Trump represents to their interests.

On the multinational corporate side, while all this is special counsel stuff is taking place, the Wall Street billionaires and multinationals will be providing the illusion of choice for the American electorate.

Things making sense now?

(Source pdf)

It’s all right there, if we just stop pretending.

Accept things as they are, not as they are presented to be.

[Kaiser8408a]

Democrats are emulating their heroes: Joe Stalin and The Russian Communist Party.

[flaglady47]

“Yep they will try to associate and wrap up key congressman in this”

They want to indict one or two key Congressmen in order to get them removed from office, thus shifting the balance of Dems/Pubs in the House back into the Dem column and thus back into total control of both Houses of Congress as well as the Presidency. Totally Machiavellian; the Dems will be as devious as they always are in their attempts to gain total control over our gov’t and our Country.

[euram]

Biden quote from the article:

Well, we just have to demonstrate that he will not take power by — if we — if he does run. I’m making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next President again.

[cuz1961]

Just curious

Are Garland and Mayorkas of the tribe of Dan ?

[j.argese]

Merrick is trying to stay 3 steps ahead of gay orgy rumors.

[Regulator]

Might as well call this A&&hole Torquemada.

He’s now the Chief Inquisitor, assigned of course by one Lisa Monaco. Nuff said.

[Vaduz]

Why is the Biden going after all of the ongoing investigations

To avoid prosecution for self and crime family the heat is on he lost complete control in D.C. his judges can’t bail him out of the many questions that linger about his actions.

He will be lucky to make it to the end of his term.

[Chewbarkah]

For those who will not read a dead-on but long article:

Since at least 2015, the FBI/DoJ has used “ongoing investigations” as their excuse to stonewall and cover up their dirty tricks and partisan malfeasance.

Desperate to obstruct Congressional Republican investigations, Biden ordered AG Garland to appoint a Special Counsel to harass his political rival and stonewall exposure of Democrat crimes, including his own.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Garland's special counsel appointment more sinister than just Getting Trump

Garland MUST BE REMOVED!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Merry Boy needs to recuse himself. The boy is still pissed off that President Trump kept his Merry ass off the SCOTUS.

[x]

Jack Smith was a war crimes prosecutor (something to do with Kosovo).

Also, it looks like he had a role on Star Trek or Star Wars.

I believe he was the Bajoran ambassador to Arktos 7.

[silent majority rising]

This administration will find out from the next one that payback is a bitch.