when thejustice department feels it has a conflict of interest or wants to avoid political entanglement. mr weiss will now be provided with extra resources. he ll also be able to issue subpoenas, search warrants and indictments. he can bring further charges beyond the state of delaware and has already filed papers seeking to do so. once he concludes his investigation, mr weiss will submit a report explaining any prosecutorial decisions. requested the special counsel designation. attorney general merrick garland says mr weiss requested the special counsel designation. upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, i have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint him as special counsel. this appointment confirms my commitment to provide mr weiss all the resources he requests. it also reaffirms that mr weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate i
jordan wrote, wiseeiss said i h been granted ultimate authority over this matter including responsible for deciding where, when and whether to file charges. jim jordan said the response was insuffie. and june 30th weiss responded with more detail saying he was assured he would be granted the necessary authority in the district district of clum columbia, or any other district that charges could be brought in this matter, on july 10th, he disputed whistle-blower claims that he requested special counsel status? quote i have not requested special counsel designation. he asserted his authority and said that he had, quote, never been denied the authority bring charges in any jurisdiction. after the show i followed up
he was what said. i have been granted ultimate authority over the matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges. that is what the u.s. attorney said on june 7th. three weeks later, mr. weiss rode me again, and he said i stand by what i rode, but i wish to expand. wow. already changing his story 23 days later. my charging authority is geographically limited to my home district. you just told me you have ultimate authority. now you change it. then again on july 10th, mr. weiss wrote senator graham, to clarify, i have not requested special counsel designation. rather, i had discussions with departmental officials. he cannot get his story straight. three different stories in a five week time frame.
committee. especially to the republican side, trace. i think what has gone on here is they have shot at the wrong target. there s been a lot of talk about weiss. weiss is not the culprit. he s the fall guy. what is supposed to happen is the attorney general picks a special counsel. if the justice department has a conflict of interest. you don t expect a sitting u.s. attorney to ask for special counsel authority. in fact, under the special counsel regulations, special counsel is supposed to be brought in from outside the government. so you re asking to be fired if you ask the special counsel designation. what this agent is basically saying to the republicans is it was the justice department that put the kibosh on this investigation. what i hope is that they number 1 recognize that and ask merrick garland the hard questions. weiss is not the guy that they ought to be interested in. secondly, let these witnesses do
be sealed in just over two weeks. the lead prosecutor in that case, david weiss, is sticking with his story that the d.o.j. never ham strung his ingags. to senator lindsey graham david weiss wrote this. i haven t requested special counsel designation or denied the authority to bring charges in any jurisdiction. it s the third time he publicly contradicted i.r.s. whistleblower gary shapley on this matter. your take. my take is i was a federal prosecutor in the public integrity section at main justice many years ago. it was not political at that time. i am afraid that there seems to be this double standard at play. look, it s very clear under the law acquit pro kuo is illegal. if hunter biden wants a meeting or policy meeting, you know, or have administration officials talk to business partners of his, that he may be getting money from, perhaps illegally.