Author/Attorney Critiques AG Garland's January 6 Speech
"“We have seen no court filings from DOJ to this effect. No cooperation deals. No raids. No subpoenas. No document demands," Abramson tweets
A prominent author and former criminal investigator jumped on Twitter Wednesday to analyze the speech Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered Wednesday on the Eve of the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol Building.
Thousands of extremist supporters of Donald Trump's stormed the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to overturn the lawful and legitimate certification of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.
Garland, who became attorney general under the Biden administration, marked the solemn occasion with long-anticipated remarks Wednesday.
“AG Merrick Garland said all correct things today—as we knew he would. The question was whether he'd go beyond being correct and be *illuminating*,” tweeted Seth Abramson, attorney, former criminal investigator and best-selling author, in what would become a lengthy thread on Twitter.
Criticism of the Justice Department under Garland, as it relates to prosecution of higher-level masterminds of the Capitol riot, isn't really about the fact that no charges have yet been leveled against those higher-ups in the insurrection, Abramson said.
“Instead, the criticism DOJ is facing that matters most—criticism that comes from those who understand how criminal investigations and prosecutions work—is that there is *no evidence whatsoever* that DOJ is conducting *any* large-scale investigation of high-level coup plotters,” he posted.
High-level Justice Department (DOJ) investigations are simply impossible to hide completely, Abramson said.
“We have seen no court filings from DOJ to this effect. No cooperation deals. No raids. No subpoenas. No document demands. No device seizures. No interrogations. No howling from powerful Trumpists that they are being 'targeted' simply for being... seditious insurrectionists,” he said.
Garland only said one thing in his entire speech which could be considered illuminating, according to Abramson.
“In his speech today, Garland uttered only *one line* relevant to *these* concerns expressed by his peers in the legal community. And it was thin gruel, indeed. He said that DOJ would pursue individuals who were ‘not present' at the Capitol. That 'revelation’ only goes so far,” he tweeted.
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