Noun
special counsel (plural special counsels)
(US politics, law) A special prosecutor.
They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel. Bruce Babbitt
Special Counsel Jenna Ellis said: "This is significant because no person can or should be held in contempt of a constitutionally invalid order. Source: Internet
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Russia used a campaign of propaganda and hacking to boost Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election. Source: Internet
President Trump should unilaterally appoint a Special Counsel to investigate all the previous corruption of the prior “Russia” investigations and the outrageous abuses of process lurking beneath the reports of Horowitz and Mueller. Source: Internet
The bureau believed he was “collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government” at that time, a claim which he repeatedly denied and that has proven to be untrue by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s lengthy investigation. Source: Internet
The charges against Stone arose from former Special Counsel Robert S Mueller’s Russia probe. Source: Internet