As Jan. 6 probe expands, officials worry DOJ resources are at a breaking point

[babylonsister]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-probe-expands-officials-worry-doj-resources-are-breaking-point-rcna40208


As Jan. 6 probe expands, officials worry DOJ resources are at a breaking point
"We don't have the manpower," one official said.
July 29, 2022, 4:30 AM EDT
By Ryan J. Reilly

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In conversations with NBC News in recent months, more than a dozen sources familiar with the sprawling Jan. 6 investigation expressed varying degrees of worry about whether the resources the Justice Department has allocated to the effort are sufficient for such a vast criminal investigation.

Federal officials have made about 850 arrests in the nearly 19 months since the Capitol attack, but that's still only a minor fraction of the more than 2,500 people who entered the building and the hundreds more who committed serious crimes outside but haven't yet been arrested. The massive trove of evidence — be it body camera and surveillance video or damning content generated by suspects themselves — presents a tremendous challenge for an enormous bureaucracy working with technology that's often a few years behind the times, at best.

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The Justice Department has asked for help. Its 2023 budget request asks Congress for more than $34 million to fund 130 employees, including 80 federal prosecutors, to aid the "extraordinary," "unprecedented" and "complex" investigation.

The Justice Department didn't get the requested funding in the omnibus spending bill that passed in March — it was included in a fiscal year 2023 spending bill that passed the House Appropriations Committee last month.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an interview this week that he was “confident” that the Justice Department could handle the workload regardless of what Congress does.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. This pretty much suggests to the crazies that they just have to show up in way bigger numbers

next time.

At some point the numbers could be too large for 'everyone to be prosecuted' within a remotely reasonable period of time.

Scary prospect.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Increase the fines on the insurrectionists.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP drains the US Treasury by grifting, crimes, theft and then the cost to catch them.