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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: didjuneau who wrote (223288)	6/11/2024 10:47:32 PM
From: didjuneau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224648

DOJ Searched for Connections Between It and Alvin Bragg’s Office and Found None twitchy.com Brett T. \| 7:00 PM on June 11, 2024 AP Photo/Susan Walsh As we reported earlier today, Attorney General Merrick Garland published an op-ed in the Washington Post called, "Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end." That sounds a little bit like a threat. We agree with him to a point, though; there are enough things about the Justice Department to attack without resorting to unfounded attacks. Last week, an equally defensive Merrick testified in front of Congress, and Rep. Matt Gaetz asked what Merrick knew about the No. 3 man at the Justice Department resigning to make the "remarkable downstream career journey" to a line prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office just as the prosecution of Donald Trump was about to begin. Garland insisted he knew nothing about it, and that Matthew Collangelo must have just "applied for a job there." House Republicans demanded any correspondence between the Justice Department and Bragg's office, but after an "exhaustive" search, came up with nothing. The DOJ informed House Republicans that an exhaustive search yielded no communications between the department and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. https://t.co/usARIHh0OP — The Hill (@thehill) June 11, 2024 It's just another one of those GOP conspiracy theories that put hard-working Justice Department employees in danger. "exhaustive" https://t.co/ZaZAdVdJ01 pic.twitter.com/0oR3EH0KCY — Deebs (@DeebsFLA) June 11, 2024 This is such a crock of sh*t. Colangelo left DOJ on Friday, Dec 2, 2022. Colangelo started working in Bragg's office on Monday, Dec 5, 2022. Obviously, Bragg and Colangelo were in communication while Colangelo was at DOJ. That they didn't use DOJ email should be equally obvious. https://t.co/fsE20dUW19 pic.twitter.com/BNvIVdwATN — Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) June 11, 2024 That really is a coincidence that Colangelo would take a massive salary cut to move from the Justice Department to the Manhattan District Attorney's office. He must have put in that application really quickly, and it must have been stellar to get hired three days later. We investigated ourselves and found ourselves to be completely innocent. — Keith 😬😬😬Burton (@bbeekk321) June 11, 2024 If only there were ways for people to communicate outside of work e-mail. But according to Fusion Kyle and the illiterates at Politico, Matthew Colangelo somehow left DOJ and joined Bragg’s office three days later without ever talking to anyone in Bragg’s office. Call it the… https://t.co/PtplmPTfIs — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 11, 2024 "Call it the Immaculate Corruption!" Also, DOJ is lying. Kinda figured that went without saying, but you never know. — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 11, 2024 Maybe they learned from Anthony "Tony" Fauci to use their personal email accounts and not their government accounts and phones. After all, Fauci's deputy David Mortens told EcoHealth Alliance Director Peter Daszak not to worry about FOIAs … he could always "send stuff to Tony on his private Gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that would cause trouble." Colangelo led the NY AG’s civil inquiry on Trump before Biden brought him back into the DOJ. He also handled NY’s lawsuits against the Trump Administration on immigration and a number of other issues. Of course he was speaking with NY officials before switching jobs. He was just… — FoiaFan🇮🇱 (@15poundstogo) June 11, 2024 "He was just smart enough not to do it in emails." Why do you think Hillary Clinton set up a homebrew email server and never used her official government email account? Where is the job posting, the resumes, and the interview notes? Who else applied? How was he chosen? What was the process? All of that can be FOIA — Rosa 🦅🇺🇸 (@AquaBreezesRosa) June 11, 2024 Maybe the DOJ's "exhaustive" search didn't extend to Colangelo's personal email account. (Exhaustive snark at link. Nobody is buying what Garland is selling.)

To: didjuneau who wrote (223288)	6/12/2024 3:54:56 PM
From: didjuneau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224648

BREAKING: The House has voted 208-207 to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of congress. According to the rules, the Sergeant-at-Arms needs to arrest Garland and bring him to the floor to answer for himself pic.twitter.com/ULLtiexnRp — George (@BehizyTweets) June 12, 2024 House holds Merrick Garland in criminal contempt. The vote was 208-207.pic.twitter.com/1VU8byGX2u — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 12, 2024 DOJ memo insists AG Garland can't face prosecution for contempt over Hur interview tape Hur declined to bring charges in part due to his assessment that "Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." justthenews.com House Republicans have issued a subpoena demanding that Garland turn over the audio recording of the interview, which he has refused to do, highlighting that Biden had claimed executive privilege over the recording. The House advanced a contempt resolution in a 208-207 vote on Wednesday and a final vote is expected to take place Wednesday evening. The OLC memo noted that the DOJ has never pursued contempt charges against an executive branch official when a president has exercised such privilege over the disputed material. "Consistent with this longstanding position, no U.S. Attorney has pursued criminal contempt charges against an Executive Branch official asserting the President’s claim of executive privilege," the memo reads, according to The Hill.