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Attorney General Merrick Garland was on Capitol Hill this week to face the 118th Congress and testify before a Senate Panel.
The title of the hearing was “Oversight of the Department of Justice.”
While a number of the questions involved the investigations of President Biden and former President Trump, Garland also answered questions about the Hunter Biden probe.
Critics voiced concern about the politicization of the Justice Department and the FBI alleging that their impartiality will affect the investigation into the first son’s foreign business dealings.
Garland was adamant in his testimony that the investigation will not come under political influence.
Not everyone is convinced. Former Assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker joined “Fox and Friends” and told the hosts, “Merrick Garland knows what he’s supposed to do. He’s the surrogate for the administration… he’s proven that.”
“So it’s just a wink and a nod… He can pledge that he won’t interfere all he wants, but there is no reason why the U.S. attorney in Delaware should be sitting on this case for well over a year.”
“It’s very clear to me, as someone who ran the criminal division of the FBI and was a former prosecutor before I went in the FBI, that they have the evidence,” he continued. “Whatever evidence they have, they’re just sitting on it, and they’re delaying the decision.”
“He could not explain why the might and power of the Justice Department under his supervision only seems to fall on people who are on the right wing of the political spectrum who have conservative ideology,” Swecker said. “I was looking for answers to those questions, and what I saw were dodges and passing the buck over to the agents that did it, it wasn’t me.”
“I think he’s probably the poorest leader, the weakest attorney general I have seen in my 40 years in this business,” he continued.
Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, seemed to have the same concerns. He asked Garland what would happen if Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, needed to refer the case to another jurisdiction.
Garland said that Weiss would have “full authority” to do that but Grassley remained skeptical. It seems unlikely that a Biden appointee would act to approve charges without political influence.
“If Weiss, the U.S. attorney there in Delaware, must seek permission from a Biden-appointed U.S. attorney to bring charges, then the Hunter Biden criminal investigation isn’t insulated from political interference as you have publicly proclaimed,” Grassley said during the hearing.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Garland he hears from “agents of the FBI who are angry that it is treated as the enforcement arm for the DNC.”
Garland rejected that idea saying, “We prosecute without respect to ideology, but we do focus on the most violent acts and the most violent actors.”
Tell that to the Catholic pro-life activist in Pennsylvania who got into a minor skirmish outside a Planned Parenthood.
The man agreed to turn himself in to authorities, but instead, 25 FBI agents showed up at his house with guns drawn while his wife and seven children watched.
Was that not political? Was he one of the most violent actors to who Garland refers?
