Attorney General Merrick Garland on Jan. 12 appointed a special counsel to investigate whether any person or group broke the law in the handling of classified materials found in an office President Joe Biden used, as well as one of Biden’s homes.
Garland, a Biden appointee, picked Robert Hur, a former federal prosecutor, as special counsel.
The attorney general said the “extraordinary circumstances” at play required the appointment.
Regulations state that the attorney general will appoint a special counsel when he determines a criminal investigation is warranted and that investigation or prosecution by the Department of Justice “present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances” and that “under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter.”…