The Justice Department has reportedly requested interview transcripts from the Jan. 6 Select Committee, signaling a continuation of its efforts to expand its investigation into the events surrounding deadly Capitol insurrection last year, according to a New York Times report on Tuesday.
We don’t know if there is a grand jury that has been assembled. We do know that there is a DOJ criminal investigation into matters which touch upon matters being investigated by the J6 Committee. We do know that the DOJ is finally taking a formal look at what the J6 Committee has been doing. They are about 5-6 months behind schedule, imho. The DOJ approach of focusing almost exclusively on the folks who actually invaded the Capitol and looking to flip upwards from there has been reasonably successful to date, but I doubt that path could ever lead us to Trump. Trump would not have likely interacted directly with Proud Boy types, and intermediaries like Stone, Bannon et al won’t likely talk. The path to indict Trump lies through what the J6 Committee has found, including the criminal legal theories that they have developed and pursued.
This is a nice step from the DOJ but I’ll need to see a lot more from them to be satisfied that they are up to the task of defending the Republic. As of right now, they are well short of what is needed to truly defend this country against traitors from within.
However, the DOJ began signaling its intent to broaden its probe into the attack in recent weeks, with requests for records about people involved with the planning of rallies that preceded the insurrection in addition to Republicans who attempted to act as fake electors for Trump after the 2020 election.
Merrick the Meek is slowly bestirring himself?
Somebody tell me I’m wrong, but this feels exactly backwards. Seems to me that the department of Justice should be the one who is ahead in the investigation, after all they have an an alphabet soup of investigators. It always feels weird when the amateurs are ahead of the pros. Makes you wonder what the fuck the pros are doing.
No, we DO know they have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/30/jan-6-fbi-subpoena-justice/
Being an AG, FBI Director, Federal Judge is a thankless job.
It’s not clear to me that this grand jury is issuing subpoenas to folks like Meadows, Flynn, Clark, Patel, Bannon, Rudy et al, meaning the folks who were in the room where it happened (to paraphrase ‘Hamilton’). I’d need to see an article stating that the GJ is talking to the same folks that the J6 Comm has been deposing.
It’d be a real shame if any of the sworn testimony the House probe is sitting on contracted any sworn testimony the DOJ probe is sitting on.
A real shame…
All in all, that’s probably a good thing, right?
Not in this environment.
As far as I understand, that’s as it should be. Prosecutors don’t issue hourly press releases and Twitter updates on their investigations. Provides an unfair advantage to the bad guys. I know it’s unpopular to say maybe we ought to be patient and see what actually happens because real-world legal stuff doesn’t happen all in a minute. But oh well! I’ll say it anyway.
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Fair enough.
Wanted to include Justices, but
#ThanksClarence
LOL
I want this shit to blow sky high about the first of October.
Bury the fucking R party.
Federal prosecutors typically don’t issue subpoenas to people who are probable targets of a grand jury probe. Even if they were inclined to do so, the folks in the innermost circle would be the very last to receive them.
It all looks pretty positive to me. DOJ can go through the info the J6 committee has and decide what needs to be expanded upon and what doesn’t. Looks like that saves DOJ a lot of time.
To use an agricultural analogy, when the manure gets piled up high enough in the barn, it becomes impossible to ignor the stench. The Jan. 6th Committee has gathered the manure all in one place and the stench is now well established. The DoJ has been forced to act. It’s about time. They will need MULTIPLE Grand Juries in WDC to sort this one out.
The Passion Play is just beginning. Fani Willis’s Grand Jury in GA is already issuing subpoenas - the stench from Atlanta will ALSO be impossible for main Justice to ignor for much longer.
AG Garland did not want to get into the politics of this mess, but at this point, he really has no other options.