I’m sorry but that one word makes me discount everything that came before. It’s the essence of discrimination. I have other problems with your opinions but that suffices. Toodle-oo.
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Prosecuting from bottom up may make some sense, but not collecting evidence and testimony from people does not, why wait years to collect that when people’s memories will be less fresh and data might be deleted.
A man’s wife is murdered let’s start by interviewing everyone but the man’s family and wait to investigate his house after a few years.
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“Carpenters Rule: Measure Twice, Cut Once.”
Maybe the DOJ is working on the 2nd measurement?
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Wonder how surprised they’d be at Mark Meadows testimony.
This guy needs to be in the same net as his master.
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In the current world of probing reporters, social media and leaks of everything everywhere some wonder how the DOJ could be interviewing, issuing subpoenas, empaneling grand juries, issuing search warrants for documents, testimony and electronic data, and the dozens of other activities associated with a massive investigation yet not a word of it, little to no evidence at all, is surfacing. No one has told their cousin they were called in for an interview. No one working for a bank or telecom or internet provider has leaked the DOJ contacted them with a warrant or request for information. No one on the defensive over being a target has gone on the offensive and complained to the media about being “persecuted”. Yes, many are sworn to secrecy in the process, but even those oaths are commonly broken. This isn’t 1944, where Eisenhower could invade Normandy and mostly catch the Germans with their pants down. It’s 2022, there are no secrets. If the DOJ is hot on Trump’s trail they’re better at subterfuge than even Ike was.
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Well since they allowed him not to testify I guess they won’t know.
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Thank you – then it means that if you’re right, I’m right – DOJ could be working hard on this – and just avoiding the usual, expected leaks.
Meanwhile, people are stating outright that DOJ is not doing anything, when it actually means there have been no leaks.
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Easy to avoid leaks when you aren’t doing a lot of the task you would do if you were invesgating.
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Yet. Meadows seems primed to be charged with more and greater crimes-- than refusing to appear after being subpoenaed-- as Steve Bannon or Peter Navarro have been.
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Been saying for 18 months that Garland isn’t up to the job. Early in the administration, his DOJ lawyers filed a brief in a defamation suit against Trump by a woman who claimed he had raped her.
The substance of the rape claim goes back to well before Trump was president. Yet there were the DOJ lawyers in court, arguing executive privilege on Trump’s behalf. It set the precedent for dozens of subsequent claims of executive privilege by Trump and his cronies.
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Garland has said he won’t be political yet what you lay out is 100% political.
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How could Garland not have back-ups of the Secret Service records, not just text messages, of everything happened leading to and on January 6?
Thanks for that. Last time Merrick Garland did any prosecuting before 2021 was in coordinating the prosecution of Timothy McVeigh (according to Wiki) about 25 years ago. Perhaps Biden did make an error in judgment to get even with McConnell for holding hostage Garland’s nomination to the SC. At the time it looked like a win for Biden, but now all I see - and listen to on podcasts - are former federal persecutors with hair on fire comments over garland’s performance or lack of.
As to the ‘‘Biden administration’s gerontocracy’’, it’s been a problem before Biden. Too many octogenarians with too much power believing they’re the only ones wo know how to run things. It’s a terrible image.
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He’s still absent from twitter.
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The DOJ faces numerous problems, entrenched Republicans in the DOJ who will put party over country (see Rod Rosenstein) would have no problem betraying their country. Plus there is Grand Jury regulations that prevent the release of Grand Jury testimony.
The fight is not just in the legal sphere but in the pubic relations domain. Because of Grand Jury restrictions, most of the bad stuff Trump did may not ever be made public. By having Congress dig up the dirty laundry this gets around Grand Jury restrictions.
We like to think we live in a perfect world, but we don’t. The case against Trump has to be made clearly and convincingly.
Garland is doing everything right. Those of us with delayed gratification issues are understandably dismayed, but it is more important to get this done right rather than not getting it done in haste.
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I ignore Garland’s claim as to that aspect of going after Trump. Charging a former President is inherently political to some degree. To claim you arrived at the decision to indict and didn’t factor the politics of it in your decision is disingenuous at best.
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So if they take the 5th, would they do the same at trial? Would it be fair to assume that when they take the 5th during their trial, they are guilty as sin and trying to cover up their wrong doings?
how did we get to a place where the whole of government - including the current DOJ - is subservient to a criminal ex-president?
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I think that perhaps some of the problem in DOJ is … well, remember all the resignations during Trump? people appointed by trump? Garland is an administrator. HE is not “doing” the investigation, which as others have said, needs to be done in a manner that does not match what the Jan 6 people are doing. They also have more time than Jan 6 committee.
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2 things: 1. This isn’t what Merrick Garland signed up for. AG Garland was a legendary judge, and I think he is a fine person. However, it is clear that he didn’t want to be in charge of the investigation of a former POTUS. AG Garland wanted to clean up the DOJ and restore compliance and the rule of law. He would have been a phenomenal AG in normal times, but unfortunately, these are certainly not. 2. “Time is of the essence”. Given the gravity of Jan. 6th, 18 months is an eternity. It is clear that the main focus of the DOJ was on the ‘small fry’: the thugs who actually invaded the Capitol. If not, why was the DOJ so surprised by Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony? Also, Mr. Trump: who has long viewed the presidency as the magic shield safeguarding him from any legal responsibility, is chomping at the bit to announce his run for 2024. He believes that being the frontunner for the GOP nomination will also shield him from any accountability, and he might be right!
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