Carol Leonnig's WaPo article about DOJ delays in investigating Trump

[spooky3]

Gifted-no paywall:

https://wapo.st/3CBeajT

She was just discussing this on MSNBC.

[2naSalit]

1. Thank you!

[spooky3]

4. You're welcome. I think this is an extremely important article. Nt

[2naSalit]

10. It is...

Everyone should read this.

Personally, this makes Garland look really bad and he should probably resign.

Also need Wray to resign.


So who should be the next AG?

[Dave says]

18. I agree with this

High cowardice in action.

[inthewind21]

21. So

When someone buys into media hook line and sinker as gospel because it fits their narrative, enough so, there are calls of resignations, does that mean the MAGAS are justified as well when they do the same?

[2naSalit]

35. I don't know.

[inthewind21]

40. Really?

Interesting.

[Scrivener7]

41. You mean like using emptywheel as one's bible?

[Celerity]

56. curious choice indeed, especially as some of them attack past associations to discredit things they

do not like.

Wheeler has been a libertarian darling for ages and often went after Obama hard.




https://libertarianinstitute.org/author/marcy-wheeler/

https://theintercept.com/staff/marcy-wheeler/



https://newrepublic.com/article/135933/limits-obamas-drone-war-really



https://scotthorton.org/



https://www.antiwar.com/blog/author/marcy_wheeler/



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/16/obama-nsa-review-group-whitewash

[Scrivener7]

57. I've never found her to be the Yoda some here seem to think she is. Usually

her articles are just rehashes of stuff that isn't new. But I didn't know about her libertarian leanings.

Not surprised, though.

[moreland01]

28. Hillary

Clinton

[2naSalit]

36. My first choice.

I would imagine there are several who could do the work as it should be done.

[triron]

51. Mine too.

[onecaliberal]

2. And no fucking "gaps" in her story.

[Bev54]

45. Oh there are gaps in the story for sure. One of the most blatant errors was to say

that subpoenas for the fake electors went out the day of the J6 committee meeting June 21, when in fact those subpoenas were issued on May 25th. The DOJ already had some of the phones of those involved in the fake electors scheme, including Rudy's phone (Sept 2021) and was disseminating it which would suggest they likely got information from it.

The investigation into Sidney Powell was also started in Sept 2021

There is a good article at Empty Wheel, scrutinizing this WaPo article.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/06/19/the-wapo-shows-there-should-be-more-scrutiny-of-steve-dantuono/

[SharonClark]

3. It's an informative article and a good read.

I’m glad MSNBC is discussing it.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[gab13by13]

6. Andrew Weissmann went there;

He said that Garland was so committed to not having a partisan DOJ like the Barr administration that he ended up bending over backwards to appeasement. Weissmann said that Garland and Monaco are sincere, honest people, but they were wrong.

Also mentioned that the FBI wasn't the problem, the buck stops with Merrick Garland.

Blistering Nicolle Wallace show, where Weissmann is explaining how important Time was in investigating Trump.

Just about everyone on Nicolle's panel agreed that the pyramid strategy wasn't just a bust, it was the problem.

Brought up again that when Garland went out of his way to not appear to be partisan, he was in fact being partisan by giving trump and his inner circle preferential treatment.

[spooky3]

8. I think he's right.

Adam Schiff and others have said for months that they had concerns about the approach DOJ was taking. That was one of the reasons that a non insider like me was worried about the “slow pace.”

[orthoclad]

22. Why wait 2 years

for a sspecial prosecutor?

[Autumn]

9. All that is needed is for good men to do nothing. It sounds like we had a lot of good men

in our government doing nothing for fear of looking partisan. The whole fucking insurrection was partisan.

[Celerity]

37. +100

[Goodheart]

11. As one who said here that Garland's reluctance amounted to incompetence

I feel vindicated. And STILL angry.

[onecaliberal]

14. I'm angry too. We might lose it all thanks to feckless white men looking the other way

[whathehell]

20. I doubt it has anything to do

with their being "white men".

[Sky Jewels]

16. Me too! I'm fucking FURIOUS.

How many of us got scolded for pointing out that Garland was failing to act with needed urgency as our democracy teetered on brink?!

I can't really say what I truly think of Garland because I've already been warned about saying negative things about a "Democrat" (even though he's not an elected official and probably not even officially a member of the Democratic party). I get that he was appointed by a Democratic president, though, in what may well prove to be Biden's biggest mistake.

[triron]

52. Appeasement was the mistake.

[Skittles]

17. the entire "not looking partisan" is fucking RIDCULOUS

THEY TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT

[lucca18]

24. I am so disgusted!

Our democracy is hanging by a thread, and it didn’t have to be this way.😢

[ecstatic]

19. Right. And yet some people are *still* insisting that we were wrong

to feel that way. I'm not the petty type who insists on apologies and what not, but at least reverse course or make the pivot so that we can all move forward. Garland's delay put us all in grave danger. Point blank period. We should all acknowledge that and move forward.

[MiHale]

7. KnR..

[2naSalit]

12. K&R

[Kid Berwyn]

13. What was President Biden's role?

With all that was evident regarding traitor trump, it seems to me that Garland and Wray would not ignore his input.

[onecaliberal]

15. Im positive they never spoke about it.

[Kid Berwyn]

55. That's what I believe.

I bet Joe made it clear that his first priority was to restore non-partisan justice when interviewing Garland for the AG job.

[Scrivener7]

26. He has been adamant that he will not interfere in their work.

[Kid Berwyn]

58. Big diff from previous administration.

My hope is the voters remember next November.

[JohnSJ]

27. Nonsense. President Biden made it clear he would NOT interfere with how the DOJ ran or its

investigations. He specifically contrasted himself with the Trump administration who did interfere

[Kid Berwyn]

59. It's a question.

The point being to draw information.

ETA: Thanks for the input!

[JohnSJ]

60. Thanks for the clarification

[Scrivener7]

23. Jesus. Just finished reading the whole thing. Thank you for it, spooky3. But good God.

The fact that this is our intelligence community is horrifying.

Thank God we finally have Jack Smith.

[colorado_ufo]

30. There is an awful lot on this good man's shoulders.

[Scrivener7]

34. I know. The three biggest investigations, while the rest of them are running around

like chickens with their heads cut off.

[orthoclad]

25. The pyramid scheme is for drug gangs, not

the 21st century Confederacy.

It took Lincoln 4 years to defeat the Confederacy on the battlefield.
it took Garland 2 years to appoint a prosecutor.

Frankly, I think the documents case is minor compared to trying to OVERTHROW THE ELECTION and install a FASCIST DICTATOR!

Grrr.

[Scrivener7]

31. The fact that they think Bubba and his buddies who carpooled to DC together

were ever going to lead them to the organizers is mind-boggling.

I don't really believe they ever DID think that. I think they thought it would be a way to avoid controversy. Enough people would buy the "pyramid" explanation that they would never have to go after the organizers and "look political." Because God forbid we allow the organizers of a coup against our democracy say those prosecuting them look political.

[orthoclad]

39. Can't let politics look political, eh?

When has that ever stopped the reich wing?

[TrotskyistTidings]

29. He wasn't dragging his feet.

It was just a poor choice in boots that slowed him down.

[colorado_ufo]

32. I, for one, am glad he didn't get on the Supreme Court.

I don't think he could have stood up to having any dissenting opinion.

[orthoclad]

38. Amy Corona Barrett instead?

Ms Opus Dei Superspreader herself?

I agree with your point, but look at what we got instead. No-win situation due to high-roading and bi-partying.

[colorado_ufo]

42. Good point, but I am wishing that President Obama had made a different choice.

I am not sure if Garland would have actually been better than her, and I can't stand her. I am afraid that he would not have stood up for anything.

[orthoclad]

44. I think you're correct, and

that illustates my point that we have to stop bending over to please the reich.

We actually lost a lot of ground during Obama. Something like a thousand State seats. We got a Republican health insurance plan in return.

[moonscape]

48. Obama chose Garland because he had

the best chance of getting a hearing, though McConnell wouldn’t even allow that. If not for that, Obama would have made a different choice I’m certain.

[JohnSJ]

43. What a misguided statement. Garland would have been light years better than any trump appointee,

and failure to recognize that, or the fact that running the DOJ is not the same thing as what a SC justice does, is nonsense.

I can freely criticize Garland’s role in the DOJ, and still be comfortable that he would have been a fair SC justice.

I also recognize the fact that Garland did finally appoint a special counsel, the right thing, but a year later than it should have been.

[FakeNoose]

33. K & R Bookmarked will definitely read this

Thanks for the "no paywall" version.

[dchill]

46. And now Trump is a candidate instead of a prisoner.

I hope we're all real happy.

[doc03]

47. Garland said since this investigation started he would follow the evidence wherever it

led without fear or favor. Now we find out they did not pursue any evidence of Trump and his
cronies for over a year. I say we were fed lies by the DOJ for over a year. Same thing with the documents
the DOJ slow walked that for two years. Meanwhile Trump had secret documents he could have copied or
maybe even sold to our enemies. Why haven't they searched any of his other properties except Mara Lardo?
It's like this has been purposely delayed so as not to have Trump in court until after the election.

[triron]

53. That's damn well what it looks like.

Almost like garland and Wray are complicit.

[doc03]

54. What I have learned over the last 7 years or so when it comes to Trump

I expect the worst. But every time it turns out even worse than I ever imagined.

[uponit7771]

61. +1

[Scrivener7]

62. And don't forget the fake electors. They didn't do anything about that either.

[republianmushroom]

49. Well the Biden administration now has their scandal.

28 months and counting

[Think. Again.]

50. Justice delayed, is justice denied.