Post by Old Badger on Jun 19, 2023 22:20:46 GMT -5
Oh, dear! Looks as if the Great FBI Conspiracy Theory just got shredded:
Garland himself was behind the go-slow approach: "The Justice Department’s painstaking approach to investigating Trump can be traced to Garland’s desire to turn the page from missteps, bruising attacks and allegations of partisanship in the department’s recent investigations of both Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Inside Justice, however, some lawyers have complained that the attorney general’s determination to steer clear of any claims of political motive has chilled efforts to investigate the former president. 'You couldn’t use the T word,' said one former Justice official briefed on prosecutors’ discussions."
We certainly heard this second-hand in 2021, but now we have some reporting on what was going on inside DOJ. And far from any "rush to judgement" or "lock him up" bravado we have what anyone who's followed Garland's career would expect: professionalism, prudence, and care. Characteristics no one would associate with Trump.
Hours after he was sworn in as attorney general, Merrick Garland and his deputies gathered in a wood-paneled conference room in the Justice Department for a private briefing on the investigation he had promised to make his highest priority: bringing to justice those responsible for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.In the two months since the siege, federal agents had conducted 709 searches, charged 278 rioters and identified 885 likely suspects, said Michael R. Sherwin, then-acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, ticking through a slide presentation. Garland and some of his deputies nodded approvingly at the stats, and the new attorney general called the progress “remarkable,” according to people in the room...But according to a copy of the briefing document, absent from Sherwin’s 11-page presentation to Garland on March 11, 2021, was any reference to Trump or his advisers — those who did not go to the Capitol riot but orchestrated events that led to it.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/
www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/
Garland himself was behind the go-slow approach: "The Justice Department’s painstaking approach to investigating Trump can be traced to Garland’s desire to turn the page from missteps, bruising attacks and allegations of partisanship in the department’s recent investigations of both Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Inside Justice, however, some lawyers have complained that the attorney general’s determination to steer clear of any claims of political motive has chilled efforts to investigate the former president. 'You couldn’t use the T word,' said one former Justice official briefed on prosecutors’ discussions."
We certainly heard this second-hand in 2021, but now we have some reporting on what was going on inside DOJ. And far from any "rush to judgement" or "lock him up" bravado we have what anyone who's followed Garland's career would expect: professionalism, prudence, and care. Characteristics no one would associate with Trump.