Was Merrick Garland's Approach Correct All Along?

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70. "Remember the FBI was very late to this ballgame."

No they weren't. Here is the latest status of J6-related cases - https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/31-months-jan-6-attack-capitol -

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Based on the public court documents, below is a snapshot of the investigation as of the close of business Friday, August 4, 2023. Complete versions of most of the public court documents used to compile these statistics are available on the Capitol Breach Investigation Resource Page at https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases.

Arrests made: More than 1,106 defendants have been charged in nearly all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (This includes those charged in both District and Superior Court).

Criminal charges:

Approximately 372 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers or employees, including approximately 112 individuals who have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.

Approximately 140 police officers were assaulted on Jan. 6 at the Capitol, including about 80 from the U.S. Capitol Police and about 60 from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Approximately 11 individuals have been arrested on a series of charges that relate to assaulting a member of the media, or destroying their equipment, on Jan. 6.

Approximately 967 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds. Of those, 104 defendants have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon.

Approximately 64 defendants have been charged with destruction of government property, and approximately 51 defendants have been charged with theft of government property.

More than 310 defendants have been charged with corruptly obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.

Approximately 42 defendants have been charged with conspiracy, either: (a) conspiracy to obstruct a congressional proceeding, (b) conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement during a civil disorder, (c) conspiracy to injure an officer, or (d) some combination of the three.

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These people came to D.C. from almost every state (not that many were actually local to the D.C. metro area). That meant that the U.S. Attorneys (most of which were either "actings" or holdovers from 45) had to confirm their IDs, then work with the local FBI to get warrants in those scattered jurisdictions, and once arrested, process them wherever they were before they would eventually be transferred to D.C. for further processing/pleas/trial (if it came to that).

You are seeing what kind of prep work and dogged battles in the courts needed to be done to finally get to the "organizers" higher up in the food chain. I.e., that is the level that has the legal and financial resources that the lower level offenders don't have, and they use their leverage to challenge every action and appeal every charge.