{"id":54138,"date":"2023-08-16T22:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T02:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/?p=54138"},"modified":"2023-08-27T14:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T18:03:56","slug":"special-counsel-designation-is-papering-over-weiss-ineptitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/uncategorized\/special-counsel-designation-is-papering-over-weiss-ineptitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Counsel Designation is ‘Papering Over Weiss’ Ineptitude’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Lucas in the Daily Signal<\/em> details how the designation of U.S. Attorney David Weiss as a Special Counsel appears to violate Justice Department rules because he is not independent.<\/p>\n

House Republicans are sure to further scrutinize Weiss and his staff, who have spent the past five years collaborating with Hunter Biden and his attorneys to cover-up Hunter\u2019s crimes, now that Weiss has an even more important task, namely covering up the crimes of President Biden. From the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Biden Justice Department isn\u2019t likely to bend to the will of Republican members of Congress, and House committees will have to subpoena Garland and Weiss, said Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t mind appointing a U.S. attorney or former U.S. attorney, but it should be someone from Chicago or Colorado, with a fresh set of eyes,\u201d Kamenar told The Daily Signal. \u201cThis appointment was really about papering over Weiss\u2019 ineptitude and giving an excuse for [his] not testifying. But he\u2019s also just not qualified to be special counsel, because he\u2019s clearly not independent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also from the article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hunter Biden\u2019s former lawyer, Chris Clark, who quit Tuesday,\u00a0ha<\/a>d argued<\/a>\u00a0after Garland appointed Weiss that functionally he already was acting as special counsel.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor years, both Mr. Weiss and the department have assured us and the public that Mr. Weiss had more authority than a special counsel and full authority to negotiate a resolution of his investigation\u2014which has been done,\u201d Clark said in a written statement last week, referring to Garland\u2019s appointment of Weiss as\u00a0special counsel.<\/p>\n

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The National Legal and Policy Center\u2019s Kamenar questioned the comment that Weiss previously \u201chad more authority\u201d than a special\u00a0 counsel, asking: \u201cDoes that mean [Weiss] now has less authority?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the whole story in the Daily Signal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Fred Lucas in the Daily Signal details how the designation of U.S. Attorney David Weiss as a Special Counsel appears to violate Justice Department rules because he is not independent. House Republicans are sure to further scrutinize Weiss and his staff, who have spent the past five years collaborating with Hunter Biden and his attorneys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,1],"tags":[284,20,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54138"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54168,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54138\/revisions\/54168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}