Posted on 06/06/2024 8:06:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Garland reportedly requested for the president to claim executive privilege on the recordings, fearing that “releasing them could harm future efforts to get officials to cooperate with investigations and sit for taped interviews,” per the Post.
Speaking before the House Judiciary Committee this week, Garland accused Republicans of “seeking contempt as a means of obtaining — for no legitimate purpose — sensitive law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations. This effort is only the most recent in a long line of attacks on the Justice Department’s work.”
WATCH: Attorney General Merrick Garland Opening Statement: "I will not be intimidated and the Justice Department will not be intimidated. We will continue to do our jobs free from political influence and we will not back down from defending democracy." pic.twitter.com/smgZOv9boA
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 4, 2024
Republicans shot back and accused Garland of weaponizing the Department of Justice, citing the recent indictments of former President Trump and his recent conviction by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts.
Though the White House has provided transcripts of Biden’s interviews, where Hur described the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory” in his report, Republicans say the audio recordings could help provide missing context.
WATCH — “Blissfully Ignorant”: Matt Gaetz BURIES AG Garland on Biden’s DOJ Shutting Down China Initiative:
“Substantively, the transcript may be accurate, but, you know what, the audio would tell us so much more,” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ).
During the same hearing, Garland said that he “will not intimidated” by threats of contempt.
“I view contempt as a serious matter. But I will not jeopardize the ability of our prosecutors and agents to do their jobs effectively in future investigations...
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You can share a cell with Steve Bannon!
If it’s not one Constitutional Crisis it’s another.
CUT OFF HIS DAMNED FUNDING. Will the GOP EVER use it’s one weapon?
What’s it been, 6 weeks since idiot Johnson gave them everything they asked for?
funny... it's the LACK of doing their job that has everyone pissed.
well, that and actively turning the US into a child sex trafficking operation masked behind drug trafficking.
GET THE SEARGENT - AT- ARMS.
I’m shocked...NOT.
Arrest this fk’n moron. Enough is enough.
Go get him.
That’s how it should. Within one day of refusing to show up, he should be made to show up in chains.
He knows nothing will happen.
The Republicans aren’t interested. The last time they had passion was when they owned both houses of Congress and they kept starting Investigations of Trump.
Contempt of Congress. The same thing they nailed Bannon on. The SAME THING.
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate doesn’t want anybody asking them any questions.
And Johnson should send the capital police after him and arrest him.
Did I dream that Biden was making Corvette sounds while being questioned? (Vroom vroom.) Just what you’d expect from a man who has lost his cognitive skills. Keep lying Merrick 🤥
A Nancy Pelosi led Democrat house of representatives would never tolerate a Republican AG defying congressional subpoenas. They threatened to impeach Bill Barr and he folded like a cheap suit.
And the Dems wanted him on the US Supreme Court!!!!
There are not nearly enough votes in the House to do that. And after November? Forget about it!
Seek an order for preservation of evidence, at least until a few minutes past noon on January 20, 2025, when it will no longer be a problem. I don’t care when they release it, as long as it gets released so we can rub their noses in it.
But there is not now a "Republican House of Representatives" in the same sense that there was a Democrat-led House when Pelosi was Speaker.
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