Yesterday The American Spectator published my article about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss to be the Special Counsel in charge of the investigation of Hunter Biden.

The article is below.

David Weiss: A Not So Special Counsel – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

In an utterly gobsmacking display of cynicism and contempt for our intelligence, Attorney General Merrick Garland has conferred Special Counsel status on Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss. This move comes five years after Weiss started investigating Hunter Biden.

According to Garland, Weiss advised last week that “his investigation has reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a Special Counsel.” After reviewing this request and the “extraordinary circumstances relating to the matter”, Garland “concluded it is in the public interest” to appoint Weiss a Special Counsel.

CNN reported that Garland offered no further explanation for his decision. But the reason for his silence is obvious: there is no explanation  that could pass the laugh test.

Justice Department regulations provide, among other things, that an “individual named as Special Counsel shall be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decision making” and “shall be selected from outside the United States Government.” (Emphasis added)

But, as U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, Weiss is a government employee. So why did Garland appoint him Special Counsel rather than someone who is outside the government? (RELATED: Trump’s Third Indictment Is Ludicrous)

Simple. Because, as an employee of the Justice Department, Weiss remains directly answerable to Garland and, by extension, Joe Biden. His new job title is calculated to gloss over the fact that he remains subject to that chain of command.  

Even more importantly, Weiss has already demonstrated his willingness to advance the interests of the Biden family. So, to determine Weiss’s “reputation for integrity and impartial decision making” we need look no further than the ludicrous plea deal that his office negotiated with Hunter Biden’s lawyers and attempted to blow past Judge Maryellen Noreika of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. (READ MORE: Three Cheers for Judge Noreika)

That deal consisted of two agreements between Weiss’s office and the defense. The first of these was an agreement by which Biden would plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges for failure to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018. In return, the Government would recommend a sentence of probation.

Attached to the plea agreement was “Exhibit 1” that set forth Biden’s service “on the board of a Ukrainian energy company and a Chinese private equity fund” as well as other business and legal services for other entities all of which generated income “totaling more than $2.3 million in 2017 and $2.1 million in 2018.”

The second agreement was for pre-trial diversion on Biden’s one count charging him with “knowingly possessing a firearm while then an unlawful user” of controlled substances. Among other things, Biden would be required to refrain from purchasing or possessing a firearm or ammunition and to be subject to supervision by U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services. (READ MORE: Broken Plea Deal Exposes Fast Times at the DOJ)

If Hunter honored the agreement and didn’t reoffend for 24 months, the Government would drop the gun charge.

All of this was a pretty standard diversion agreement save for the fact that, way down in paragraph 15, Weiss’s office inserted the promise that the “United States agrees not to criminally prosecute Biden for any federal crimes encompassed by” the diversion agreement “and the Statement of Facts attached as Exhibit 1 to the Memorandum of Plea Agreement filed this same day.” (Emphasis added)

Got that? With that brief, bland, and seemingly innocuous clause, Weiss’s office was going to give Hunter Biden blanket immunity for all of his nefarious business dealings and activities in Ukraine, China, and elsewhere. The inclusion of such a broad-based immunity provision for crimes not relating to the subject of the diversion agreement was totally unprecedented, a point noted by Judge Noreika as she picked apart the deal in open court. 

In short, Weiss was instrumental in crafting and attempting to sneak past the court what can only be described as a sleazy, sleight of hand scam that would have effectively protected Hunter from all other charges that related to his selling of the Biden brand.

The irony here is that this scam not only impugns Weiss’s “reputation for integrity and impartial decision making” it is also proof positive that, as far as he was concerned, the investigation was over. If the stealth blanket immunity provision had been approved by the court, then what other crimes would have been left for Weiss to investigate or charge? Clearly he intended for the plea deal to close the books on the Biden investigation.

Which raises the question of what he intends to do going forward. Given that he was caught trying to secretly confer blanket immunity on Hunter, are we to believe that Weiss now intends to change course and conduct an honest, serious, and thorough investigation?

Does Garland think that we are that stupid?

So the shameless Garland has made Weiss a grand high Special Counsel and apparently we are supposed to be impressed and reassured that Hunter Biden will now receive equal justice under the law. 

But here’s a news flash for Garland and the rest of the Biden regime.

You can put lipstick on a pig, but that doesn’t change the nature of the beast or take away its smell.

Nobody with an IQ above room temperature is buying this charade.

George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor. He blogs at knowledgeisgood.net.