Where the fuck is Garland?

[Bev54]

27. This article at Empty Wheel helps to understand realistically how the DOJ

and the committee are working together. The committee can get a lot more information from media sources that will take the DOJ much longer and harder to get under the first amendment. I do not understand this animosity towards Garland when it has become so very obvious he is doing his investigation. Maybe instead of being pissed off, a little reading from the legal community will help to understand what is going on.

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"Multiple reports on the January 6 Committee have indicated that they’re packaging their public hearings up with an eye towards making admissible evidence available to DOJ and other law enforcement investigations. Along with speech and debate and executive privileged testimony, the January 6 Committee has greater ability than DOJ to obtain the testimony of journalists than (under Merrick Garland’s media guidelines) prosecutors at DOJ can.

That’s why the prominent inclusion of Quested is of particular interest. As of last Thursday, there was just one reference to Quested in the Proud Boy Leaders discovery index (though his work is included in open source videos). But whatever testimony he provides tonight will become accessible to prosecutors, who have just one more week before deadlines on discovery start kicking in.

There’s one more detail that I expect the Committee to include that has gotten too little focus: the other bodies.

Because QAnon mobilized bodies in less direct ways than the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers, that effort is in some ways more accessible to Congress than to DOJ (because Congress doesn’t need to show probable cause to obtain evidence). And thus far, at least, the Committee’s efforts at understanding the role of the 1st Amendment Praetorian — militia associated more closely with Mike Flynn — have been more public than those of DOJ."

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/09/prep-for-the-january-6-committee-hearings-focus-on-18-usc-372/