Garland’s Distance From Hunter Biden Inquiry Fails to Quell Critics

From The NY Times:

Tom Fitton, who founded Judicial Watch, a conservative advocacy group in Washington, called the plea deal and diversion agreement “a miscarriage of justice whose chief beneficiary is President Biden.” He questioned why Mr. Garland had not appointed a special counsel who might have produced a public report explaining why prosecutors did not seek a harsher penalty, as did John Durham, the special counsel who investigated the origins of the inquiry into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

“Garland, not Weiss, is the one who is ultimately responsible, and there’s no deal that would proceed without Garland’s agreement or complicity,” Mr. Fitton said in an interview. “He ignored the regulations, which required the appointment of a special counsel, conveniently.”

Mr. Garland never seriously considered appointing a special counsel, in part because they were not deemed necessary in prior investigations of presidential family members, according to a former law enforcement official familiar with the case.

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