Who Is Robert Hur, the Special Counsel Investigating Biden’s Handling of Classified Documents? – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Who Is Robert Hur, the Special Counsel Investigating Biden’s Handling of Classified Documents?

Daniel J. Flynn
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Special Counsel Robert Hur (WJZ/YouTube)

Who did Attorney General Merrick Garland appoint as special counsel investigating Garagegate? Him, by which I mean Hur — Robert Hur to be precise.

On the one hand, he succeeded Rod Rosenstein as U.S. attorney for Maryland and worked for Christopher Wray for many years. On the other hand, he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski.

While the former set of facts screams the title of the best song by the Chameleons, the latter ones, particularly his association with Kozinski — once long favored by right-wingers of a libertarian bent for a spot on the Supreme Court — suggests Hur likely shares beliefs with many readers.

Predicting Mega Millions winning numbers seems as safe a bet as forecasting how such law careerists conduct themselves in office. But one can at least exhale knowing that Hur did not come out of Perkins Coie or the ACLU.

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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.  
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