“The events of January 6th were an attack on the foundation of our democracy. But this does not relieve the Department of Justice from following its own guidelines, written to preserve the very same democracy,” Faruqui wrote in an order filed Tuesday. "As to the question of whether and how the Department of Justice complied with its policies, the court received an unsatisfactory answer."
A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington declined to comment, but in a letter to the judge Monday, prosecutors respectfully told Faruqui that their compliance with the Justice Department’s internal policies is none of his business.
“Those safeguards fall within the province of the Executive Branch and do not bear on the question of probable cause before the Court,” wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney John Crabb Jr., chief of the office’s criminal division.https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/judge-justice-department-media-protections-506854----------------
More dictator behavior from the Biden administration.
