White House frustration with Garland grows

[Timber Rattler]

This should be fun...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/09/white-house-frustration-with-garland-grows-00140813

Joe Biden has told aides and outside advisers that Attorney General Merrick Garland did not do enough to rein in a special counsel report stating that the president had diminished mental faculties, according to two people close to the president, as White House frustration with the head of the Justice Department grows.

The report from special counsel Robert Hur ultimately cleared Biden of any charges stemming from his handling of classified documents that were found at Biden’s think tank and his home. But Hur’s explanation for not bringing charges — that Biden would have persuaded the jury that he was a forgetful old man — upended the presidential campaign and infuriated the White House.

Biden and his closest advisers believe Hur went well beyond his purview and was gratuitous and misleading in his descriptions, according to those two people, who were granted anonymity to speak freely. And they put part of the blame on Garland, who they say should have demanded edits to Hur’s report, including around the descriptions of Biden’s faltering memory.

In White House meetings, aides have questioned why Garland felt the need to appoint a special counsel in the first place, though Biden has publicly said he supported the decision.

While Biden himself has not weighed in on Garland’s future, most of the president’s senior advisers do not believe that the attorney general would remain in his post for a possible second term, according to the two people.

“This has been building for a while,” said one of those people. “No one is happy”

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Wouldn't it be hilarious if Garland eventually feels betrayed and turns loose his dogs of war against Biden in retaliation, just as the campaign season heats up?  he has a lot of cards to play, especially concerning Hunter Biden.

And to think that Biden and the Democrats use to insist that the Department of Justice was fully independent, non-political, and that it was beyond the pale for the White House to interfere with its investigations!

[Timber Rattler]

Biden picked Garland as his attorney general with the stated desire to restore a semblance of independence at the Department of Justice that he and others believed was lost under Donald Trump. He announced the nomination the day after the Jan. 6 attacks at the Capital — a backdrop that Biden offered up as proof that someone of Garland’s stature and temperament was needed in the post.

“Your loyalty is not to me,” Biden said. “You won’t work for me. You are not the president or the vice president’s lawyer.”

Democrats close to Biden fear Garland has become too consumed by that instruction to appear impartial.

Gee what was Garland thinking...that he was supposed to be independent and impartial?

[Cyber Liberty]

Garland's release of the report unredacted is the biggest mystery to me, in this whole affair. 

[Hoodat]

Biden's serial violation of the Espionage Act is what should be frustrating them.

[roamer_1]

Garland's release of the report unredacted is the biggest mystery to me, in this whole affair. 

Not at all... Let's you know it's an intentional play. It's for the Big Show.