All posts tagged "Special Counsel"

Legal experts pounded the Department of Justice as it faces a possible probe into its failed effort to bury evidence of misconduct.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, and Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, weighed in on a court filing demanding a special counsel probe into DOJ's botched prosecution of the Broadview Six, a group of protesters arrested for demonstrating outside an immigration detention facility near Chicago.

A federal judge tossed the case after she found evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in the complete grand jury transcripts, which the DOJ attorneys had tried to withhold. ...

Steve Bannon is demanding a special counsel investigation into fellow MAGA bro Elon Musk’s federal contracts as well as his alleged drug use, The Daily Beast reported.

Bannon told the podcast, "Sunday Night with Chuck Todd," that there should be formal investigations into Musk, who has admitted to using the drug Ketamine to treat depression, and who received $38 billion in federal subsidies over the past 10 years.

"The best way to do it is as a special counsel that can kind of oversee everything," Bannon said of his proposed investigation....

White House attorneys were furious at special counsel Robert Hur's personal attacks on President Joe Biden in his report recommending against charges over the stray classified documents discovered in his possession, reported The New York Times on Thursday — and fought with the Justice Department over their inclusion.

"The lawyers said Mr. Hur’s comments 'openly, obviously and blatantly violate department policy and practice,' the letters, obtained by The New York Times, show," reported Charlie Savage. However, one day after the letters were sent and just as the DOJ was planning to release the report, "Bradley Weinsheimer — an associate deputy attorney general and the department’s senior career official, or nonpolitical appointee — wrote back rejecting their criticism."

According to Weinsheimer, the report's statements on the president "fall well within the department’s standards for public release."...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has had a bad week, but he’s now got a former Republican presidential candidate in his corner.

Special counsel Robert K. Hur may have cleared Biden of allegations of wilful wrongdoing in his mishandling of classified documents, but he also created quite the political stir for dubbing the president “an elderly man with a poor memory.”

Many Republican politicians and pundits alike have seized on that one clause in Hur’s 345-page report to lambast Biden, but the GOP’s own 2012 presidential nominee tells Raw Story it was a low and petty political jab. ...

Special Counsel Jack Smith slammed Donald Trump for attempts to turn his Washington D.C. election fraud trial into “a carnival” Monday with a new motion demanding proceedings not be televised, court records show.

Smith’s memo to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan condemned Trump’s attorney’s requests to allow audio and video recording in the courtroom as just another attempt to campaign during the trial, arguing the former president would stop trying to delay proceedings if transparency was his primary goal.

“If the defendant sought sunlight as he claims, he should welcome the opportunity to put the Government to its proof at trial,” Smith wrote. ...

Special counsel Jack Smith's plan to bring Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 attack into the broader 2020 election interference case shows he's essentially treating the former president as just another rioter, former federal prosecutor Mary McCord told MSNBC's Alex Wagner Friday.

"It provides important context," argued McCord. "[Trump] intended all along for his conduct to result in overriding the will of the people."

She added, "It's a natural outgrowth of what was in the indictment, but we see and much greater details, a preview of what the trial, what the evidence will show a trial."...