Testifying in the Senate Judiciary Committee today in his confirmation hearing 68-year-old former D.C. Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland was non-committal about releasing any information from 70-uear-old Special Counsel U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) regarding the origin of the Russian hoax investigation. Garland was spotlighted in 2016 when 78-year-old former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) refused to hold confirmation hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court by former President Barack Obama. Now Garland’s poised for almost unanimous confirmation as attorney general. “The attorney general represents the public interest, particularly and specifically defined by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States,” Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I do not plan to be interfered with by anyone,” saying he’ll do the peoples’ business.
For Trump’s term in office, the Justice Department went through its own upheaval, first with 74-year-old former Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions who recused himself from any decision regarding the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into 74-year-old former President Donald Trump’s allege ties with Russia. Session agreed to recuse himself in his confirmation hearing when he was confronted with conversations he had during the transition with former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak. Sessions said at the time he spoke to no one from the Russian government. Because of Sessions’ recusal, 56-year-old Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein appointed 77-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel, only a week after Trump fired former 60-year-old former FBI Director James Comey. Comey opened up a counterintelligence investigation of Trump in Summer 2016.
Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency was marred by an illegal counterintelligence investigation, illegal wiretaps and a conspiracy at the highest level of the U.S. government authorizing the national security apparatus to investigate the Trump campaign and presidency for wild speculation of his allege Russian ties. It all started when former CIA Director John Brennan and Comey used former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research against Trump AKA “the Steele Dossier,” to make wild allegations. Brennan gave Hillary’s dossier to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), a known enemy of Trump, who gave it to Comey to open up his fraudulent Crossfire Hurricane investigation. It’s clear from Garland’s responses, he plans to give very little attention to Durham’s investigation or more recent allegations about Hunter Biden’s alleged income tax evasion.
Garland said he want to keep the Justice Department independent of politics but knows that his boss, 78-year-iold President Joe Biden’s son is under investigation. “Decisions about investigations and prosecutions will be left to the Justice Department,” Garland said, acting like he would not intervene to protect the either the president or his 50-year-old son Hunter from any investigations. During Trump’s 2016 campaign and through his presidency, the Justice Department, CIA, FBI and National Security Agency [MSA] conspired with authorization from the Obama White House, including Biden, to illegally investigate Trump for the purpose of helping Hillary get elected in 2016. When that didn’t happen, all of the same agencies shifted their focus to ousting Trump from power, accusing him from Day 1 of impeachable offenses. Garland can’t start with a new slate until he purges co-conspirators in the DOJ.
When asked by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) about what he plans to do to clean things up the Justice Department, Garland sounded vague. “I am always concerned and have always been concerned that we be very careful about FISA,” Garland said. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz cited in his report Dec. 19, 2019 numerous mistakes of FBI officials under Comey in pursuing wiretaps under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court for Trump campaign officials. Garland showed no interest in what happened to Trump, or, whether or not a conspiracy took place in the Obama White House with the DOJ and other government agencies to help Hillary get elected. Garland clearly mirrored the Democrat agenda of using the Justice Department to deal with racial inequities in the criminal justice system, and unequal treatment of minorities under the law.
Garland showed his focus will be on recent events that unfolded with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and mob scene.. “I will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6—a heinous attack that sought to disrupt a cornerstone of our democracy, the peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected government,” Garland said. DOJ officials want nothing to do with examining criminal conduct inside the Obama White House, DOJ, CIA, FBI, NSA, all designed to harass a duly elected president. “Communities of color and other minorities still face discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, and bear the brunt of the harm caused by pandemic, pollution and climate change,” Garland said, reciting predigested Democrat talking points. With Garland, Democrats get their yes-man, certainly not an independent DOJ.
