Rudy’s the best for ramping up public opinion. The very best, in my opinion. But if he’s a special counsel, does he have to quit doing the talk shows? That would be the only reason I would have for going with some U.S. attorney instead.
He can’t be a special counsel to oversee an investigation of illicit FBI-CIA surveillance of Donald Trump. As a member of Trump’s personal legal team he has an obvious conflict of interest.
I think the DOJ should appoint a sitting US Attorney, perhaps Huber, to handle this under a general power to delegate and not rely on the 1999 special counsel regulation to bring in an outside person like McCarthy or Giuliani.
I have doubts that the 1999 regulation was properly drafted and would sustain a well-argued legal challenge. I know this is inconceivable given that it was drafted by ueber-brilliant super-lawyer Neal Katyal, but there you have it.