House GOP leaders should stop providing grist for the conspiracy theory content mills, writes BarbMcQuade.
. According to Weiss, he never asked to be appointed a special counsel, which would have given the attorney general the power to overrule charging decisions.
Instead, Weiss says, he discussed with Justice Department officials the possibility of being appointed a special attorney, which would have allowed him to continue to act as a U.S. attorney but file charges in any district “without the partnership of the local U.S. Attorney.” Weiss said he was “assured” he “would be granted this authority if it proved necessary.
And so it seems to me entirely possible that Weiss and Shapley were talking past each other — that Weiss was telling Shapley, correctly, that he would not be appointed a specialand that the agent interpreted that statement, incorrectly, to mean Weiss could not bring charges outside Delaware.We have all been in rooms where different people hear different things. It is even possible that Weiss falsely blamed higher-ups at the Justice Department just to get Shapley off his back.
As a result of their different roles, prosecutors and agents sometimes clash over the appropriate charges in and disposition of cases. But it is the prosecutor who must stand before a jury and ask it to decide guilt unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt, and so it is the prosecutor who gets the final say.
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