'Unethical': Ex-Watergate prosecutor rips special counsel for 'violation of DOJ rules'

In his final report on the classified documents President Joe Biden was keeping in his Delaware home, special counsel Robert Hur concluded that Biden's actions did not warrant criminal charges. But Hur has been drawing vehement criticism from Biden's supporters for describing Biden, in the report, as "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks has been calling Hur out on X, formerly Twitter.

White House official Ian Sams tweeted video of former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara telling ABC News that Hur's comments about Biden's memory were "gratuitous" and "superfluous."

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Wine-Banks, in response, tweeted, "That is an understatement. Hur's extraneous comments are a violation of DOJ rules, unethical, inaccurate, and flagrantly political and irrelevant (to) the prosecution decision."

In a separate February 12 tweet, the former Watergate prosecutor noted that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has "rules about appropriate comments on (a) subject of investigation when the decision is to not indict."

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