Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed special counsel to handle the various federal criminal investigations involving former President Donald Trump.
Well, who the hell is it???
Await the litigators on this site.
This entry should either be a Live Blog or say that the announcement is being made. After the actual naming of the Counsel, this becomes an Article. Sheesh
Just said the name is “Jack Smith” – Sounds like an alias to me… 
That takes it out of Congressional oversight, doesn’t it? No Boebert as chair of the committeee?
Amos 5:24 "But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
Jack Smith is a war crimes prosecutor at the Hague.
Investigating BOTH Mar-a-Lago classified docs and Jan 6! Here we go…
Mr. Smith returns to Washington.
Yes, including the fake electors scheme.
Three former attorneys are available:
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Hillary Clinton
Yeah…plead mercy for thugs who wanted to overthrow the government…including you…
I have no special knowledge or opinion on this, but Glenn K. has already poo-poohed the idea.
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1593687031292776448?s=20&t=agnkq-dWehfYL3GkLEbDCA
Jack Smith, a US prosecutor with experience in both high-level political investigations and international criminal investigations. He was appointed on 7 May 2018 in succession to David Schwendiman, and took office on 11 September 2018. Mr Smith was previously Vice President and Head of Litigation for the Hospital Corporation of America, the largest non-governmental health-care provider in the United States, a position he had been in since September 2017.
Between February 2015 and August 2017, Mr Smith served as First Assistant US Attorney and Acting US Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Between 2010 and 2015, Mr Smith served as Chief of the Public Integrity Section of the US Department of Justice, supervising the litigation of complex public corruption cases across the United States.
From 2008 to 2010, Mr Smith served as Investigation Coordinator in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC). In that capacity, he supervised sensitive investigations of foreign government officials and militia for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Mr Smith joined the ICC from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he served for nine years in a number of positions, including Chief of Criminal Litigation and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. As Chief of Criminal Litigation, Mr Smith supervised approximately 100 criminal prosecutors across a range of programme areas, including public corruption, terrorism, violent crime and gangs, as well as white collar and complex financial fraud.
Before becoming an Assistant US Attorney, Mr Smith served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office where he was a member of the Office’s Sex Crimes and Domestic Violence Units.
Fuck. More delay.
I understand Liz Cheney has some time on her hands.
Trump whips Garland, who caves. Trump will walk. They will run out of time. If Trump wins, he will end the Special Counsel, or not prosecute if the Counsel recommends charges, and Trump won’t care about the consequences because he can’t run again.
Garland is a coward, and thank god he isn’t on the Supreme Court.
I like this quote from his war crime days:
“Certain leaders of the KLA, including mister Mustafa, used their power to victimize and brutalize fellow Kosovo Albanians including individuals whose only crime was to have political views that differed from those of the KLA and its leaders,” prosecutor Jack Smith said.
Don’t have to change much:
“Certain leaders of the GOP, including mister Trump, used their power to victimize and brutalize fellow Americans including individuals whose only crime was to have political views that differed from those of the GOP and its leaders,” Special Counsel Jack Smith said.
False.
