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Towards greater independence and i think it will assist the public in understanding that this is an individual who will act in an independent fashion without any perceived interference from the department of justice. and, ryan riley n getting to merrick garland s decision-making here, you cover the justice department, but i know from my own reporting there that there have been concerns that even in the other special counsel situations it was not well understood by the public that merrick garland does not make the decision as to whether to indict or not indict, for instance, in the case of jack smith. that those decisions are made by the special counsel under the law and that the attorney general can only intervene by writing to congress if he or she disagree strongly. if he believes or she believes that the decision to indict or not to indict is outside of the parameters of a reasonable decision. yeah, it sort of takes the question off the table for merrick garland because it s not