AG Garland Appoints Special Counsel to Investigate Documents Found at Biden’s Home, Office

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Jan. 12 appointed a special counsel to investigate whether any person or group broke the law in the handling of classified materials found in an office President Joe Biden used, as well as one of Biden’s homes. “This appointment underscores for the public the department’s commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to making decisions indisputably guided only by facts and the law,” Garland, a Biden appointee, said in prepared remarks from the Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington. Garland picked Robert Hur, a former federal prosecutor, as special counsel….