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Mr.WeRP

(720 posts)
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 10:46 PM Dec 30

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.

(21,382 posts)
4. He won't release it, or it'll be heavily redacted...
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 10:53 PM
Dec 30

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

gab13by13

(26,356 posts)
5. Garland can release a nothing burger
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 11:00 PM
Dec 30

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

onenote

(44,924 posts)
7. I'm curious as to what folks think the report can and should disclose that isn't already known?
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 11:31 PM
Dec 30

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

(8,226 posts)
8. Not many significant reports haven't been formally released or leaked lately, even if redacted.
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 11:34 PM
Dec 30

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

Celerity

(47,841 posts)
12. Release the full report and let us all find together.
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 12:12 AM
Dec 31

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

(35,371 posts)
10. But the Biden report
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 11:41 PM
Dec 30

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

Celerity

(47,841 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, 12:00 AM
Dec 31

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, 12:47 AM
Dec 31

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

(2,869 posts)
14. Here's an Attorney-General we could have used against Trumpf. Too bad she's foreign.
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 01:03 AM
Dec 31

(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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