AG Garland to Face First Grilling Before 118th Congress Tomorrow

Conservative News DailyFebruary 28, 2023

AGeneral Information
Merrick Garland
This week, he will be subject to his first grilling before the 118th Congress. An oversight hearing by Democratic-led officials will follow.
Senate Judiciary Committee
This will put the Biden DOJ official on the hot seat.

The committee, which is presided over by Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois and whose ranking member are Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, will
Ask a question
Garland will be interviewed by the Biden attorney General on Wednesday, at 10 a.m.
Donald Trump

President Joe Biden
The criminal investigation into
Hunter Biden
The
China
Garland’s controversial school board protests memo special counsel
John Durham
Find out more.

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Trump and Biden Declare Docs Sagas

The White House, National Archives and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines have all been represented by the White House.
Garland’s nomination of special counsels has been highlighted
In the Trump and Biden classified document sagas
Reasons for deflecting or missing deadlines
Biden and Trump. Biden’s administration also cited special counsel investigations as an explanation.
Slow-walk information sharing
With
Republican congressional investigators
.

Garland’s decision that personal lawyers could be allowed to Biden without security clearances was a great move
Search for classified documents in Biden’s Delaware homes
Republicans have also harshly criticised it.

The DOJ confirmed that the special counsel justified delays in information sharing. It cited Garland’s late 2022 appointment as a reference.
Jack Smith, special counsel
To handle Trump questions related to the Capitol Riot and Mar-a-Lago classified record sagas, and the attorney general’s Jan 2023 selection for special counsel
Robert Hur
To investigate Biden’s mishandling classified records as a cause for the resignation.
DOJ had restricted information sharing on these subjects
.

Smith is a DOJ veteran prosecutor who was a long-serving prosecutor. He was, up until last year, a prosecutor in The Hague where he investigated war crimes against Kosovo. Smith is a
Mixed track record when it comes to going after high profile politicians
Both from the parties and he also tried to
Involve the DOJ in IRS official Lois Lerner’s efforts to examine conservative nonprofit groups
.

Garland has not been asked any significant questions about this.

Hunter Biden

Joe Biden, his campaign and his allies
Baselessly dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story in disinformation as Russian propaganda
October 2020 Konstantinos “Gus” Dimitrelos, a former Secret Service agent who is an expert in cyber-security,
Conduct a forensic investigation
The following are the recommendations: Washington Examiner And finally, “100% certainty” That “the data contained on the hard drive is authentic.”

Whistleblowers reported Timothy Thibault as the former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office.
“ordered closed” An “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting”
In October 2020, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.”

The
whistleblower disclosures made public
By Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA), a senator of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He also claimed that Brian Auten was an FBI supervisory analysts “opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease” 2020

Wray
He found these whistleblower accusations “deeply troubling”
August when they were asked about them. Grassley and other Republicans have pressed the DOJ to provide answers, and Garland will be questioned about it Wednesday.

Grassley previously requested that the Justice Department and FBI conduct a complete investigation into Hunter Biden’s computer, including the revelations discovered on Hunter Biden’s computer by the FBI. Washington Examiner That
Now-President Biden unwittingly funded his son’s participation to an escorte ring linked to Russia.
.

Biden asked all Senate-confirmed U.S. lawyers to resign in February 2021. Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss was an exception.
Stay on and watch as he investigates Hunter Biden
. The son of the president revealed that he was actually under
federal investigation
After the 2020 election, he was taxed and is being investigated for possible money laundering as well as possible violations of foreign lobbying under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Numerous Republicans have called Garland for help.
Designate a special counsel for the investigation
Hunter Biden and William Barr (ex-Attorney General) switched from opposing to supporting the appointment of a special counselor. Garland
The majority of the time, they were ignored
When he was quizzed on the subject in April 2022, he said so and will likely be pressed again Wednesday.

China Initiative

Recent revelations regarding a
China surveillance balloon traversing the continent of the United States
There is also the possibility of
China is looking at Russia for lethal weapons
Garland will likely be quizzed about its invasion of Ukraine by the DOJ, particularly given Garland’s closing of the DOJ’s Trump-era China Initiative.

In 2018, the China Initiative was launched. However, the Biden DOJ shut it down in February 2022. It is sandwiched between the department and the China Initiative.
Unveiling a unit for domestic terrorism
The previous month and
Launching a task force to attack Russian oligarchs
The month following.

Republicans have criticised the Biden administration’s ending of the China-focused initiative. They are now pushing for a new law to revive it and rebrand it as a “CCP Initiative”
It was aimed directly at the Chinese Communist Party’s threat
.

Garland
The China Initiative was closed down.
In October 2022, insisting on “we are unrelenting in our efforts to prevent the government of China from economic espionage” That and more “we have not in any way changed our focus on those kind of behaviors by China.”

School Board Protests

Garland was inspired by a 2021 National School Boards Association letter that had been withdrawn to aid police in responding to threats against school board members. Republicans were arguing
The Biden White House and the Biden White House conspired to create the letter.
und the national school boards group which later quit.

Garland
revealed
In 2021, the White House and DOJ communicated about the September 2021 NSBA Letter just before he issued his Oct 2021.
Memo
NSBA letter requesting the DOJ to examine the PATRIOT Act deployment “in regards to domestic terrorism” against parents protesting. Garland’s memo stated that it would “discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate.”

Internal
Emails
Some NSBA board member objected to Biden’s sending of the letter, and some school boards group members.
Withdrew
And he apologized.

Garland
Doubled down
During congressional testimony in 2021, he argued that NSBA’s subsequent apology was a mistake. “does not change the association’s concern about violence and threats of violence.”

The FBI’s National Security Division and the DOJ’s National Security Division
Garland’s orders were not carried out by them, so they downplayed their role.
2022

John Durham

Durham was asked by the Biden administration to resign as U.S. Attorney from Connecticut. However, he was not allowed to do so.
As special counsel, kept on
To investigate the Trump-Russia investigation.

Durbin declared in January 2023, that the committee would be formed.
Durham’s investigation is worth a close examination
Follow these steps to New York Times
Story
Criticism of the inquiry by the special counsel

Durham had charged Michael Sussmann, a Democratic cybersecurity lawyer, with allegedly hiding his two clients, Rodney Joffe, Neustar chief tech officer, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign for 2016 from James Baker, FBI General Counsel.
Rebutted claims of a secret line for communication
At a September 2016 meeting, the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa-Bank.

Sussmann was convicted by the jury.
Not guilty
After a trial last year in the nation’s capitol, the false statement accusation was brought against him.

Durham also charged Russian analyst Igor Danchenko (the main source for British ex spy Christopher Steele’s discrediting dossier) with the crime.
Incorrect information about the sourcing
dossier claims, as well as those related to baseless allegations of a well developed conspiracy of cooperation between Trump and Russia,
The special counsel claimed that the statement was false
.

Danchenko was also similar
Last year, not guilty
.

Durham was able to plead guilty to one charge from Kevin Clinesmith (an ex-FBI lawyer), who Durham
He admitted that he falsified a document in the bureau’s flawed attempts
Carter Page, Trump campaign associate, to renew surveillance authority under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Congress is discussing the renewal of FISA authorities by the DOJ. The deadline for reauthorization is December 2012.

Republicans have called on Garland
Durham’s work can be completed by you
And have
Query to the attorney general:
Durham’s entire report, expected to be complete in the coming months.

“With respect to the report, I would like as much as possible to be made public,” Garland
Witness testimony
In 2021. He also vowed. “There will be no political or otherwise undue interference with the Durham investigation.”