Garland does the Bidens no favor by dodging a special counsel appointment
by Andrew C. McCarthy, Opinion Contributor - 04/28/22 9:00 AM ET
I despise the institution of independent prosecutor, or “special counsel” as the current iteration is known in federal regulation. I am thus sympathetic to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s insistence, in Senate testimony on Tuesday, that the Biden investigation — which the administration disingenuously minimizes as if it implicated only the president’s son, Hunter — is in the capable hands of the Biden Justice Department, with no need to appoint a special counsel.
Alas, to be sympathetic is different from being convinced. The undeniable facts are that (a) there is a bulletproof case for the appointment of a special counsel under regulations that are supposed to bind the Justice Department, and (b) if the shoe were on the other foot, there is no way Democrats would indulge the pleas of a Republican attorney general — even one who was a respected former federal appeals court judge — that a Republican president’s Justice Department be trusted to investigate the Republican president’s family without political interference.
Hunter Biden’s own miniaturizing of his predicament notwithstanding, the investigation is not solely focused on either him or his “tax affairs.” Millions of dollars allegedly poured into the Biden family, not just the president’s son, from foreign sources tied to notoriously corrupt governments (Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Mexico) and authoritarian regimes that are hostile to the United States (China and Russia).
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