Did Garland wait too long to begin investigations?
If he hadn't waited for the Jan 6 Comm to do his job for him and wasted at least 6 months of precious time before the midterms, will his poor timing/decisions determine the fate of our democracy?
OK, let me have it. I know DU is split on this matter and Garland has finally acted but I still hold him accountable for a delay.
That delay could prove to have been an extremely disastrous decision for the country. Politics aside...was this really the best choice for him to make at this precipitous time in our nation's future?
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These brave keyboard critics could do the time standing on their heads!!!!
which is why over 870 have been arrested per the last update at the beginning of this month (actual case updates appear here).
What was interesting was that last evening, Alex Wagner had former a US Attorney Jim Walden on and he had a graphic that sortof summarized all the different things going on that are potentially "under investigation" and/or could be under investigation, and it's pretty breathtaking -
And different aspects may have their own Division assigned to work on it.
This is definitely RICO and the center of the image - the "hub" - contains the key figures who are somehow involved in some form or fashion with the "spokes". Am thinking Jenna Ellis probably should have been included in that "hub" part too.
A lot of the above has been "publicized" in bits and pieces over the past couple years but let me say this (for about the millionth time) - every agency has an increasingly escalating "process" (and that goes for NARA, and as we have seen, goes for Congress as well) for how to handle inquiries and refusals of their inquires BEFORE they go to DOJ to "enforce" those inquires. DOJ cannot possibly "reach down into" every agency's interaction (and problems they are having) with whoever those agencies are dealing with.
Probably 90% of the time, when an agency asks for something, after occasional hemming and hawing, the requestee complies. Then you have that 10% who balks and blows it off, but with sufficient threats (DOJ starts getting involved), probably most of those will finally "comply" and/or settle. But there will often be those few couple percent like we have been seeing here, that are insisting on fighting it all the way. But THEY are not the typical.
So in the case of NARA, literally in the aftermath of the destruction that happened in the Capitol January 6, and just before Inauguration Day as the criminal finally fled the White House, inventories were done by NARA and even the White House Curator, regarding what might be missing. And a series of escalating requests were made by NARA to return the items - literally that first year (2021). Some stuff trickled back but it wasn't until around December 2021/early January 2022, when NARA finally started getting a more substantial response, and at that point, they were able to confirm that things were worse than they thought, and THAT is when they went to DOJ as their "next step".
Meanwhile, as the the earlier DU narrative spent months insulting the J6 Committee, which was only formed June 30, 2021 after the drama of trying to make it bipartisan and bicameral, while the game-playing by the GOP loons ensued and delayed the creation, they held their actual FIRST hearing on July 27, 2021, that continues to be forgotten, and then came back almost a year later (June 2022) with the first of what would be 8 hearings as their 2022 kick off.
So everyone was in their own lane, thanks to the Constitution's "separation of powers", but what the result was, aside from all the drama and insults, was the reveal of the depth and breadth of what is, as has been repeated over and over, an unprecedented series of events.
