If your house is burning down you call someone who will put on the siren and carries an axe. That’s the situation we’re in.
The Garland apologists are out in full force here today, casting him as a comic book fantasy hero … Garland as Clark Kent, stepping into a phone booth and suddenly emerging as a prosecutorial Superman, prepared to crush the coup plotters and seditionists … this what many desperately want to believe, but get back to reality, folks.
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Says Elie Mystal on AG Merrick Garland: "It speaks to cowardice. He is happy to indict the foot soldiers—because that is easy. It is comparatively harder to investigate, and prosecute, and charge the people who planned it, the brains behind the operation. He doesn’t seem to have the gumption to do it.”
The apologists you speak of here astonishingly defend his weak patrician paper pushing/processing, when I’m assuming we all have the same goal of seeing the people who tried to overthrow our government behind bars … but who knows.
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You talk out of both sides of your mouth here. Can’t you see that?
You say definitively “those who should be behind bars” and then you jump to loose invariability “will likely walk.” as if you have some foggy, imperfect oracle telling you who should be convicted and that they won’t be.
And then you deny me the ability to predict anything at all with “and you have absolutely no way of knowing otherwise”. I will save my response after including this last bit:
“If that turns out to be the case Garland has failed”.
Here’s my look into the future.
If it turns out that any on your target list are not even charged, it will be because there is no direct, nor even sufficient tangible evidence upon which to base a charge. Full stop.
That is not to say those folks will necessarily be innocent. Rather it will more likely be that they either covered their tracks exceedingly well or put enough layers between themselves and the wrong-doers.
Will that be the case? Hell if I know. But I do know this: if the DOJ is compiling evidence and witnesses against anyone on your hit list, we will only learn about it once an indictment is dropped.
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As a former firefighter I take exception to your misplaced allegory. Further, your presumed openness to throw caution to the wind when it comes to prosecuting offenders will lead to a single, inevitable outcome: acquittals.
I am basing future actions on what I have already seen, which isn’t much. You seem to be basing your predictions, or whatever you want to call them, on hope. You yourself have said that hope is not a strategy.
That said, I hope you are right. Really, I do, but time is running out.
OT: I am so very glad that Garland is not sitting on the Supreme Court. He would have been an unmitigated disaster. I’m not happy that Amy Covid Barrett is sitting in RBG’s seat but I’m not unhappy that Garland isn’t sitting in it.
I agree with Elie Mystal. We’ll probably have to be satisfied with a lot of low hanging fruit.
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How do you know what Garland’s “careful undertakings” are? You are simply making this up out of thin air.
You have no evidence to that Garland is conducting an active, aggressive criminal investigation of trump, Meadows, Flynn, Bannon, et al.
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Garland is not “undertaking” shit. He has USAs for that. His role is to ensure effective legal and administrative functions at the DOJ
I don’t need evidence. I can tell you with absolute certainty that Garland is conducting zero investigations as he is too busy running the entire fuck DOJ. But, as noted above, his USAs are probably earning their salaries by having their teams investigate criminal conduct.
Their motivation… Their boss took down McVeigh and the fucking Unibomber.
Gah!
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At least you admit that you don’t need evidence to make your assertions … and again you have no evidence that any U.S. Attorney’s Office in DOJ is actually conducting an active criminal investigation of trump.
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Well, well, well… This guy along with Clair McCaskill and others think nothing is happening. No subpoenas for witnesses, apparently, because no one has said they’ve been subpoenaed. No detectable activity anywhere on this front.
Merrick Garland had better have some news tomorrow.
So no proof of anything. But hey, let’s bash anyone who disagrees with your unfounded opinion.
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If DOJ is actively investigating the coup attempt to overturn the election, Garland can and should confirm that. But his speech will probably just be a bunch of platitudes.
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Neal Katyal is worried.
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You have to conduct an Investigation before a Prosecution, and there’s absolutely no indication that DOJ is actually conducting a criminal investigation of the attempted coup to overturn the election.
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Well. since you are obviously employed at a very high position at USDOJ, I can only assume that you know everything about everything.
Or not.
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All Garland has to do is to confirm that there is an active DOJ investigation into the coup attempt to overturn the election … but in your fantasy world Garland is too busy reviewing employee time sheets and “administering” the department to be bothered with such a trivial matter.
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You need to back off.
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I agree. I just don’t feel Garland grasps the moment.
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Gallego, being a member of Congress, has access to info we don’t. He may not be on a Committee that has jurisdiction over DOJ, but he talks to colleagues who are.
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Perhaps he may think of primary-ing someone himself.
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