It was done quietly and with no fanfare. There was no public announcement and the usual press conference did not occur.
It was also done without leaks—a stark contrast to how these kinds of matters are usually handled.
When then-Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller back in May of 2017 to be a special counsel that would investigate the various RussiaGate allegations, there was an intense level of media scrutiny from the very start.
That didn’t happen this time. And it was no accident.
This time a special prosecutor was assigned and dispatched to investigate a very important matter without the media even being aware it was happening.
A special prosecutor is different from a special counsel. The special counsel statute clearly states that the person who is appointed to this role must come from outside of the U.S. government. A special prosecutor, however, can be an employee of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and under the direct authority of the Attorney General.
John Durham, who is U.S. Attorney for Connecticut that is currently leading the DOJ’s investigation of the origins of the RussiaGate hoax, has functioned as a special prosecutor in the past, such as when he was tasked by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate how corrupt FBI agents shielded mobster Whitey Bulger.
This time Attorney General William Barr avoided the limelight and the glare of the cameras as he brought in the seasoned and experienced U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Jeffrey Jensen, and gave him the job of quietly going into the Washington U.S. Attorney’s office and finding out what went on in the controversial Lt. General Michael T. Flynn case.
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