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Senator Grassley Declares David Weiss Unfit for Special Counsel Job, Pledges Ongoing Congressional Investigation Into Biden Family Bribery
Red State ^ | 08/11/2023 | Jennifer Van Laar

Posted on 08/11/2023 8:49:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/11/2023 8:49:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Republicans need to pick a “special counsel” to investigate Weiss. I’m just surprised Weiss beat out all the Jamaican and Indian Feddie women for the job.


2 posted on 08/11/2023 8:52:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
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To: SeekAndFind

So now is your chance. Don’t fund DOJ/FBI in 2024 and they are shut down. All you have to do is nothing. Refuse to pass a bill that has funding for the FBI or DOJ or allows any other agency to spend money doing the things instead. It’s simple. The do-nothing republicans control the house. Well, just do nothing. We’re waiting. Shut the corrupt bushtards down. You have to pay district court judges salaries, but you don’t have to provide any money for the federal courts to operate. Do the right thing. Do what you are good at. Do nothing. Shut it down.


3 posted on 08/11/2023 8:56:51 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: FlingWingFlyer
BTW, the appointment of Weiss as Special Counsel is a violation of the special counserl law.

First off, as Andrew McCarthy and others have pointed out, legally, a special counsel should not only be a person with a “reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking” but a person who isn’t working for the administration. As the relevant part of the special counsel law explicitly says: “The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.”

Then again, whether Weiss’s appointment is legal or not, the entire idea of a special counsel – and I’m no fan, in general — is to conduct an independent investigation when cases are hampered by conflicts of interest. Yet here we are.

Weiss has already slow-walked the investigation to ensure the statute of limitations had lapsed on Hunter’s most egregious tax and FARA charges.

Weiss signed off on a plea deal that would have granted Hunter immunity for charges related to guns, taxes, and who knows what else, ensuring that the president also avoided scrutiny. The unprecedentedly wide-ranging deal was so ridiculous that Judge Maryellen Noreika nixed it.

Weiss’s public contentions regarding his role, in that case, have been contradicted by credible IRS whistleblowers. They testified under oath that the prosecutor told them he asked to be appointed special counsel at least twice and that he sought to bring federal charges against Hunter in California and DC but was turned consistently turned down by Biden’s DOJ.

Each of these incidents should disqualify Weiss from being named special counsel. And yet here we are. Not exactly surprising, I guess, considering the CORRUPT DOJ’s mission seems to be protecting the Bidens.


4 posted on 08/11/2023 8:57:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: AndyJackson
BTW, the appointment of Weiss as Special Counsel is a violation of the special counserl law.

First off, as Andrew McCarthy and others have pointed out, legally, a special counsel should not only be a person with a “reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking” but a person who isn’t working for the administration. As the relevant part of the special counsel law explicitly says: “The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.”

Then again, whether Weiss’s appointment is legal or not, the entire idea of a special counsel – and I’m no fan, in general — is to conduct an independent investigation when cases are hampered by conflicts of interest. Yet here we are.

Weiss has already slow-walked the investigation to ensure the statute of limitations had lapsed on Hunter’s most egregious tax and FARA charges.

Weiss signed off on a plea deal that would have granted Hunter immunity for charges related to guns, taxes, and who knows what else, ensuring that the president also avoided scrutiny. The unprecedentedly wide-ranging deal was so ridiculous that Judge Maryellen Noreika nixed it.

Weiss’s public contentions regarding his role, in that case, have been contradicted by credible IRS whistleblowers. They testified under oath that the prosecutor told them he asked to be appointed special counsel at least twice and that he sought to bring federal charges against Hunter in California and DC but was turned consistently turned down by Biden’s DOJ.

Each of these incidents should disqualify Weiss from being named special counsel. And yet here we are. Not exactly surprising, I guess, considering the CORRUPT DOJ’s mission seems to be protecting the Bidens.


5 posted on 08/11/2023 8:57:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Republicans (occasionally) investigate their political opponents.

Democrats prosecute theirs.

6 posted on 08/11/2023 9:02:46 PM PDT by daler
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They must have spent at least a month talking over the illegal aspects here of Weiss being appointed. I think it’s just a drag-out feature....forcing the House/Senate into a delay trying to challenge this. Even if you went to challenge this...it’d take what...maybe a year to get this to the Supreme Court?

Part of me wants to suggest that Biden just ordered it done this way.


7 posted on 08/11/2023 9:03:16 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind

The DOJ will claim there’s “an ongoing investigation” and they can’t talk about it. That’s what they’ve been doing for the last two years on other Congressional investigations.


8 posted on 08/11/2023 9:03:30 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: SeekAndFind
Can you say “On going investigation”?

Sure you can boys and girls, “On going investigation”!

9 posted on 08/11/2023 9:03:49 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: SeekAndFind

The US is the world’s most corrupt government.


10 posted on 08/11/2023 9:05:20 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback on Covid & no trial jailed Jan 6 protesters.)
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Corrupt government is an oxymoron. Been that way since Sumer.

If you’re in good with the God-King du jour, you get favors.


11 posted on 08/11/2023 9:36:58 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SeekAndFind

Drop dead fossil. You’ll do nothing like your POS carcass has done for the last 50 years.


12 posted on 08/11/2023 9:59:28 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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When Hunter’s plea deal was declared nulls and void by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, Biden’s Lawyers looked for an alternative method to shield Hunter. It was prosecutor Wise who set up that flawed plea deal which would have shielded Hunter from future indictments. Now Wise has been selected as a Special Council with the power to shield Hunter more directly by controlling the evidence. Do they think we are so stupid that we can’t figure out what they are doing?

This whole influence peddling case has similarities to the Nixon cover-up of the Watergate break-in. When the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress, Nixon resigned. Joe Biden’s pay for play enterprise has bee described by the The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1, et seq. (”FCPA”):

“Enacted for the purpose of making it unlawful for certain classes of persons and entities to make payments to foreign government officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business. Specifically, the anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA prohibit the willful use of the mails or any means of instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of any offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment of money or anything of value to any person, while knowing that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to a foreign official to influence the foreign official in his or her official capacity, induce the foreign official to do or omit to do an act in violation of his or her lawful duty, or to secure any improper advantage in order to assist in obtaining or retaining business for or with, or directing business to, any person.”

FCPA violations can result in imprisonment of up to five years, criminal penalties of up to $100,000, and civil penalties of up to $10,000.


13 posted on 08/12/2023 1:47:52 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Weiss will spend 2 years saying, "We can't hinder an ongoing investigation!"

He'll run out the clock on statutes of limitation, make no charges, and his final report will declare the Biden's as pure and innocent as the wind-driven snow.

It's insultingly obvious.


14 posted on 08/12/2023 3:33:14 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Trump thought this guy was good enough to appoint him to the bench. I also remember that when trump got a special counsel to investigate him, many said what about hunter? Well they got their wish. He’s being investigated along with trump. Is it that nobody is happy these days all?


15 posted on 08/12/2023 5:10:47 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: SeekAndFind
There is no “special counsel law.”

What you are citing there is a set of internal DOJ regulations that carry no legal weight and can be overridden at will by the Executive Branch of government.

16 posted on 08/12/2023 5:14:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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Grassley has since issued a formal statement

Well that should make things better huh Moe.


17 posted on 08/12/2023 8:10:09 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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That regulation I cited is in the Code of Federal Regulations (also known As CFR ).

The executive branch is required to follow the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The CFR is a compilation of all the rules and regulations issued by federal agencies in the United States. It covers a wide range of topics, including everything from environmental protection to labor standards. The executive branch, which includes the President and various federal agencies, is responsible for enforcing and implementing these regulations.

And here’s what it says:

The qualifications clearly state: “The Special Counsel shall be *selected from outside* the United States government.”

That is in 28 CFR 600.3

See here:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/part-600#:~:text=§%20600.1%20Grounds%20for%20appointing,Qualifications%20of%20the%20Special%20Counsel.

If the DOJ can just ignore a federal regulatory code, what’s to stop it from ignoring ANY code that it doesn’t like?

Congress should look into this and DEMAND that the DOJ follow the code and based on this, DISQUALIFY David Weiss.


18 posted on 08/12/2023 4:20:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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“Congress should look into this and DEMAND that the DOJ follow the code and based on this, DISQUALIFY David Weiss.”

I’ll go one better than that. The Congress and We, the People should demand that Garland, who defied the code and ergo, the law, be immediately fired and replaced with someone that actually will follow the code and the law of this land. Nice dream, right? They’ll get away with this just like they’ve gotten away with everything else in this suddenly surreal world and nightmare we’re trapped in.


19 posted on 08/12/2023 4:35:25 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: SeekAndFind
The executive branch is required to follow the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The CFR is a compilation of all the rules and regulations issued by federal agencies in the United States.

True ... the CFR is a compilation of all the rules and regulations issued by Federal agencies in the United States.

But those regulations are not issued by Congress. They are issued by Federal agencies that operate under the authority of the Executive Branch (i.e., the President). This means they many of them -- the ones that have no impact on anything outside the internal workings of the Executive Branch -- can be changed or ignored at will, and there is no recourse for anyone to challenge it.

Here's a perfect example: The position of Deputy U.S. Attorney General was never established by Congress. It only exists because the U.S. Attorney General created it out of thin air in 1950. The only legal provision related to this office is that the Deputy AG must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate (a requirement that was imposed by Congress long after the position was created). The President of the United States is under no obligation to name anyone to that post. He can leave it vacant if he wants. He can eliminate it tomorrow if he wants.

Under the internal rules of succession established by the U.S. Department of Justice (NOT by Congress), the Deputy AG becomes the acting AG if there is a vacancy in the AG's office. Because this succession is established within the Executive Branch and not by law (i.e., a statute passed by Congress), the President can ignore this at will and change the succession protocol any time he damn well pleases.

20 posted on 08/13/2023 8:48:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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