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Mr.WeRP

(1,098 posts)
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 11:46 PM Dec 2024

Mark My Words: Garland is blocking or will block Smith's report

The alarm bells are going off here that Smith has not released his report. He has until Jan 20 2025 but something tells me it ain’t gonna happen. Garland will say it would only divide a divided nation and put people in harm’s way.

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Think. Again.

(22,456 posts)
4. He won't release it, or it'll be heavily redacted...
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 11:53 PM
Dec 2024

I suspect he's glad this job is almost over and he can go back to just advising the federalist society.

gab13by13

(32,041 posts)
5. Garland can release a nothing burger
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 12:00 AM
Dec 2024

The grand jury testimony will be redacted so all Garland has to do is redact the rest of the juicy stuff.

onenote

(46,120 posts)
7. I'm curious as to what folks think the report can and should disclose that isn't already known?
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 12:31 AM
Dec 2024

Should it disclose grand jury information? Classified documents? National Security information? Should it disclose the names of witnesses whose identity has been masked for their own protection?

I think some here think there are bombshell disclosures that can/should come out in the report. I don't know why they think that.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
8. Not many significant reports haven't been formally released or leaked lately, even if redacted.
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 12:34 AM
Dec 2024

I think it will come out, one way or another. But who knows nowadays?

Celerity

(54,249 posts)
12. Release the full report and let us all find together.
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 01:12 AM
Dec 2024

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

edhopper

(37,289 posts)
10. But the Biden report
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 12:41 AM
Dec 2024

On a dropped case, with comments that had nothing to do with the nature of the supposed crime, was fully released right away.

Celerity

(54,249 posts)
11. If he refuses, it's a profound dereliction of duty, another wilful blow to a vital ingredient of democracy: transparency
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 01:00 AM
Dec 2024

History is not going to be kind to Mr. Garland.

The wreckage Merrick Garland leaves behind

His failures left American democracy ripe for the picking.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219688116
 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
13. The report won't change anything anyways
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 01:47 AM
Dec 2024

Donnie's rampant criminality has been normalized and whitewashed to the point where nobody cares anymore, not even the legal system... Everyone else is either indifferent, ignorant or fearful of Donnie's political reprisals...

America is now ruled by a king with absolute power 😒

C0RI0LANUS

(3,017 posts)
14. Here's an Attorney-General we could have used against Trumpf. Too bad she's foreign.
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 02:03 AM
Dec 2024

(Israel's Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara)

The dynamic Mrs. Baharav-Miara is Israel's first female Attorney-General.

She has been a pit bull locked on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's butt for years prosecuting his corruption case despite all his delaying tactics.





Link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu
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