Posted on 04/02/2022 11:52:53 AM PDT by RandFan
WASHINGTON — Immediately after Merrick B. Garland was sworn in as attorney general in March of last year, he summoned top Justice Department officials and the F.B.I. director to his office. He wanted a detailed briefing on the case that will, in all likelihood, come to define his legacy: the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
Even though hundreds of people had already been charged, Mr. Garland asked to go over the indictments in detail, according to two people familiar with the meeting. What were the charges? What evidence did they have? How had they built such a sprawling investigation, involving all 50 states, so fast? What was the plan now?
The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments. And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Mr. Garland said that he and the career prosecutors working on the case felt only the pressure “to do the right thing,” which meant that they “follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead.”
Still, Democrats’ increasingly urgent calls for the Justice Department to take more aggressive action highlight the tension between the frenetic demands of politics and the methodical pace of one of the biggest prosecutions in the department’s history.
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@julie_kelly2
This article is something from an alternative universe. FBI is hunting down trespassers who supported Donald Trump, subjecting them to pre-dawn raids with armed agents and SWAT vehicles. DOJ is bastardizing an obstruction law to make hundreds into felons
DC USA is a Biden campaign advisor married to a Trump-hating activist who called J6 protesters "terrorists," and he's going after J6ers with bloodlust. J6 committee is openly demanding Garland prosecute Trump and others. The OPPOSITE of "independent."
Democrats hunting Republicans is great stuff. Republicans even sniffing at a Democrat is a “partisan witch hunt.”
An outrage.
...and “Paraders”...
Hey, Bill Barr ignored Hunter’s laptop, that the FBI had for almost a year.
Biden is a spiteful little prick who uses the full power of the Government to destroy anyone he disagrees with. He was behind the effort destroy General Flynn.
But the entire Biden family committing crime after crime is totally fine..Hunter Biden making child rape videos on his laptop is totally awesome and Joe Biden showering with his 14 yr old daughter is totally cool
Garland has to be mindful of another J6 investigation from which the NYT is blissfully exempt: the one to come in the new House. Journalists don’t face malicious prosecution lawsuits.
Yet some middle class, law abiding Americans stroll into the Capitol building, a totally legal act, they are called "Insurrectionists". One of them was even murdered by a Negro hot shot LEO who has yet to be prosecuted.
We were all raised with "justice is blind", "equal justice under the law". That no longer exists. The ballot box no longer exists as sacrosanct. Our representatives in Washington do the work of oligarchs and foreign governments, and not the people's business. The Federal government treats the middle class as the enemy. Are we kidding ourselves? Do we still have a Republic?
They are angry about Durham and want their own Special Counsel
We should nominate no candidates for Congress who don’t pledge to go after these tinpot tyrants.... starting with that sniveling excuse for a human being Christopher Wray.
We CAN’T abide a Speaker McCarthy or Majority leader McConnell... that in my opinion would be even worse than a democrat Congress.
Of course there’s pressure…. This entire thing is a dog. We know it, they know it…. Political theater. No one is buying what the J6 is selling lol. Folks have bigger issues
This is political persecution - again, where are the investigations and charges for the insurrection the Democrats ran and actively supported in the summer of love riots?!
Has Ray Epps been charged yet ?
Or, is his name still forbidden to be uttered in the Beltway bureaucracies.
” Even though hundreds of people had already been charged,...”
Last I heard, there were no formal charges lodged against the arrested and imprisoned defendants. Has that changed?
ya got nothin...
Seriously doubt Biden said anything other than why am I here, and can I have my pudding now.
First step imprisoning us. Second os disappearing us. Make no mistake. The progressive want us dead.
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