HPSCI Memo Gives ‘No Other Option’ Than Special Counsel

There’s no other alternative, a former U.S attorney says.

Daniel J. Flynn February 6, 2018

A former U.S. attorney and independent counsel tells The American Spectator that the charges made in House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) memo represent prosecutable violations of the law that require the appointment of a special counsel.

“It is a crime to make a false statement to a federal court that can be part of a conspiracy to submit false statements to a court,” Joseph diGenova explained to The American Spectator. “It is a crime to engage in electronic surveillance under color of law except by authorization of law. If authorization to obtain electronic surveillance is obtained through lying or fraud, that is a felony. If you testify on your activities in a court of law or on Capitol Hill in pursuing or obtaining select surveillance and you lie about it, that is perjury.

“It is safe to say that based on the record we have available there are a number of officials who apparently did all of those things. That is why there must be a federal grand jury to investigate all of these activities by Obama administration [Federal Bureau of Investigation], [Department of Justice], and intelligence community people.”............“Given the nature of the evidence of illegal conduct by senior officials in the bureau and the Department of Justice, the only way to handle a criminal investigation is with a special counsel,” diGenova points out. “There is no other option.”......To Read More.....