"The Special Counsel shall be selected from OUTSIDE the United States Government"
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Now this may be an instance where it's just not properly recorded. Check out this article:
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-biden-cabinet-b48026fe9d00fe9b046ba8087bec1262
"Separately, U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was appointed in October by then-Attorney General William Barr as a special counsel to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, will remain in that capacity, the senior Justice Department official said, but is expected to resign from his other position as the U.S. attorney in Connecticut."
So maybe the idea is Weiss will have to retire shortly to complete the formal special counsel appointment process? There's a lot of ways to read this information. It could be anything from a bland formality to evidence of the end of the US Corporation.