#VoteBlue #SpecialCouncil
How is this different that Jack Smith? Maybe I'm dense:
"Robert Hur, who served in senior roles at the Justice Department during the Trump administration, was appointed in January 2023 to oversee the investigation.
Hur is one of three special counsels Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed.
Special counsels are appointed to handle sensitive cases - usually involving political figures or allegations of serious wrongdoing by the government. They have greater independence than is usually afforded to federal investigators.
Justice Department rules allow the attorney general to appoint one when the department would have a conflict of interest or when he or she decides that it would be in the "public interest" to have an outside lawyer handle an investigation.
The attorney general defines the scope of the investigation, but the special counsel has the power to investigate new crimes that occur during the probe, such as obstruction of justice."