Merrick Garland Made a Lethally Important Point About His January 6 Investigation
Merrick Garland Made a Lethally Important Point About His January 6 Investigation
His speech on Wednesday did everything it was supposed to do.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 5, 2022
There will be a general disappointment in some quarters that Attorney General Merrick Garland did not arrive for his speech on Wednesday with a chain of human heads behind him. This, I think, mistakes what the speech was really about.
First, it was a memorial of the first anniversary of the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election. As such, there were elegiac elements to the address that were wholly appropriate. Second, nobody ever is going to mistake Merrick Garland for William Jennings Bryan. He burns no barns. He busts no blocks. He rouses no rabble. But it’s more than a little unfair to judge what he said Tuesday by either of those standards. He said a lot more than he’s usually given credit for saying....
More pointedly, Garland cited the Watergate investigation in defense of the pace and mechanics of the Justice Department’s investigation. This is a lethally important point. There was a long period of time in which it seemed as though the actual investigation would never get past the White House gates. For example, back in 1974, there was tremendous impatience among the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives at how slowly they perceived the Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry was moving. Yet, one day, committee counsel John Doar showed up with a binder containing his statement of the case against Richard Nixon, and the fight was over at that moment. It was thinking about John Doar that reminded me that Merrick Garland convicted both of the Oklahoma City bombers after an investigation that did not leak a drop.
It was a good speech that did everything it was supposed to do. It paid proper respect to the dead and wounded of January 6, 2021. It linked what the DOJ is doing now to the DOJ’s original purpose—which was to protect the lives, rights, and the franchise of newly freed Black citizens in the South in the years after the Civil War. In doing that, he tied the insurrection itself not only to the actions of the previous administration*, but also to the voter-suppression campaigns by Republican politicians that preceded January 6, but which has accelerated in the days since. He even cited John Doar’s work for Attorney General Robert Kennedy in working for voting rights in 1961.
It was a big circle, and Garland drew it perfectly.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a38678418/merrick-garland-jan-6-investigation-speech/
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He hunted them all his life;
The only one he didn't catch
Was married to his wife."
Old poem I remember from the Watergate days. Yeah, it's a stretch, but, forget it, I'm rollin'....... 
But I should think we should expect the agents of top-level traitors to be professionals who maintained legal distance, for themselves and more so for their employers.
And of course there's the new "grassroots" method of funding everything. Claim even phony associations with popular anti-establishment causes or names and rake in hundreds of thousands in short order. Following that money would lead them to every political social media site on the web, and good luck finding one who had any idea what the money was being used for.
Still. I wouldn't want them following me.
That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works.
As always, hats off to Charlie Pierce. 
for your on the ground report.. and TY for your Service!
are mistaking it.
has to say.
I don't pay any attention whatsoever to any pundits.. on tv or online.
Mahalo, mcar!
