Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to oversee DOJ's Trump probes? - NPR

Jack Smith, seen successful 2010 erstwhile helium was the Justice Department's main of the Public Integrity Section. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith a peculiar counsel connected Friday to oversee DOJ's transgression investigations involving erstwhile President Donald Trump. Charles Dharapak/AP hide caption

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Jack Smith, seen successful 2010 erstwhile helium was the Justice Department's main of the Public Integrity Section. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith a peculiar counsel connected Friday to oversee DOJ's transgression investigations involving erstwhile President Donald Trump.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland has named the Justice Department's erstwhile public integrity chief Jack Smith to oversee the Justice Department's transgression investigations involving erstwhile President Donald Trump. The determination comes 3 days aft Trump announced that helium volition run again for the White House.

Smith volition oversee investigations of the retention of nationalist defence accusation astatine Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate, arsenic good arsenic cardinal aspects of the department's Jan. 6 investigation, according to a elder Justice Department official.

Smith has astir precocious served arsenic the main authoritative for the peculiar tribunal successful The Hague charged with investigating and adjudicating warfare crimes successful Kosovo.

Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks alongside Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite astatine the U.S. Justice Department connected Nov. 18. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption

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Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks alongside Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite astatine the U.S. Justice Department connected Nov. 18.

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He joined the Justice Department successful 1999 arsenic an adjunct U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. He moved to the International Criminal Court successful 2008, supervising each war crimes investigations conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor, earlier taking connected the nationalist integrity bureau of the Justice section successful 2010.

"I mean to behaviour the assigned investigations, and immoderate prosecutions that whitethorn effect from them, independently and successful the champion traditions of the Department of Justice," Smith said successful a connection released aft helium was publically named. "The gait of the investigations volition not intermission oregon emblem nether my watch. I volition workout autarkic judgement and volition determination the investigations guardant expeditiously and thoroughly to immoderate result the facts and the instrumentality dictate."