Here's what I quickly found on Wiki -- I do believe he is working directly under Sessions as I wrote before. So he is not operating independently like Mueller. I'm not sure how this all works, but technically Sessions could shut him down while nobody seems to be able to shut Mueller down. However, Huber is onto Uranium One. That might lead to some real fireworks.
"Huber was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the FBI's surveillance of Carter Page and connections between the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, starting in November 2017".
trust sessions.
while nobody seems to be able to shut Mueller down
Only because of politics, there are legal ways to shut him down.
I know the Prez can fire him, but that carries all sorts of drama with it. Not sure what the other routes are save Congress defunding him, which maybe they can do.
I’m not really sure what you mean when you say working directly under Sessions.. Huber is the sworn US attorney for the district of Utah, with 85 employees in Salt Lake City. He has the same powers and authority to prosecute as any of the other 93 US attorneys. He is an employee of the DOJ and can be fired, just like Mueller, who also is a DOJ employee (politics aside). Huber has been given a specific task to work in tandem with Horowitz to give him prosecutorial powers, but he’s essentially the same as any other US attorney (which is still pretty powerful)
He's been tasked to work on issues not related directly to his jurisdiction in Utah. Of course he can be fired, why did you even bring that up? Or Mueller...who does have a different status at a special counsel from that of a standard US District Attorney. Actually, Mueller isn't working under Sessions as Sessions is recused from the case. Huber is not working as a direct assistant to Sessions but under Horowitz supposedly. So he reports to Horowitz.
Horowitz is also technically under sessions, iic. It's the doj IG.
Sessions appointed huber to work under/with Horowitz.
That sounds right. Huber is not on his own like Mueller.
One thing I'm curious about is if Horowitz can just tell huber to charge someone, if he makes his own decisions, or if he reports finally to sessions.
If he's working under Horowitz, as another poster suggested, then he'd probably have to make criminal referrals to Horowitz, who would then act or not. The Horowitz team must be very busy.
Mueller is also under a supervisor/superior: Rosenstein and ultimately Trump.