[Does Judge Boasberg have any legal right to counsel Jack Smith's Deputy Windom and other co-conspirators working for Smith? This is a long article and this info is at the very bottom.]

Another special counsel lawyer asked federal judge for help(subhead)

Several of Smith special counsel’s office investigators have appeared for testimony behind closed doors on Capitol Hill already.

The Judiciary Committee has already made a criminal referral on one special counsel’s office deputy, Thomas Windom, for allegedly obstructing the congressional investigation when he declined to answer some questions.

Windom struggled with the guidance the Justice Department gave him on what to answer to the House committee and even went to the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, DC, for guidance before his second round of testimony.

Judge James Boasberg suggested at one point Windom may want to decline to answer questions about his work with Trump’s grand juries by asserting his Fifth Amendment rights.

“I certainly understand (Windom’s lawyer) and Mr. Windom’s desire not to be stuck between the horns of the dilemma, as you said, that he could be prosecuted either way,” Boasberg said in a hearing, according to a transcript obtained by CNN of the previously unreported hearing.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/jack-smith-house-judiciary-committee-testimony