In a classic Friday news dump, Garland announced Friday that U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the same U.S. attorney who signed off on Hunter Biden’s now-revoked plea deal, has been appointed as special counsel to investigate his alleged criminal activities more fully.
The Justice Department still has never made the terms of that deal public, and it is only because of a leak to the press that anyone outside of Hunter Biden’s lawyers, the court, and the DOJ has seen it. And once one reads the plea deal, it becomes readily apparent why the DOJ wanted to keep it a secret.
As the federal judge who rejected the deal pointed out in court, the scope of immunity being offered to Hunter Biden by the plain language of the document was unprecedented. She literally asked the DOJ lawyer if there was any precedent for the breadth of the agreement not to prosecute and the DOJ lawyer said “no.