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How about releasing the Smith Report Part II, about the stolen classified documents, or did Garland throw them in the fire like Mark Meadows did?

BoRaGard
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Fiendish Thingy
(20,074 posts)Why no hateful mention of Pam Bondi? evidence in the public record shows Bondi is definitely corrupt, which is not the case with Garland.
gab13by13
(28,877 posts)Could Garland have released the Smith files? He released every other file that was related to Joe and Hunter. Garland's release of the Hur report was disgraceful, it contained lies about Joe's mental health and Garland had no business releasing those lies.
I have no idea if Garland was corrupt or not. I know he waited 4 days to have the FBI search Joe's properties. I know he waited 11 months to search Mar-a-Lago where he knew there were top secret documents.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,074 posts)Biden invited DOJ to search his property and office.
Trump forced Garland to get a warrant, after 11 months of deception and lies about whether he had returned all the documents he had. Warrants require a judges signature, and getting a warrant against a former president requires all ducks to be in a row, with nary a crack in the case establishing reasonable suspicion/probable cause.
The case for getting a warrant must be as airtight as the anticipated indictment; otherwise the evidence obtained can be easily tossed by any judge, not just a corrupt one like Cannon.
Cannon excluded all of Smiths evidence, but none of Garlands.
But you knew that already.
gab13by13
(28,877 posts)weren't returned, or was my statement about my local library having better records actually true?
Garland couldn't release the classified documents report until after Smith dropped the Nauta D'Olivria cases. Smith gave his documents to Garland on Jan. 10, Krasnov was inaugurated on Jan. 20.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,074 posts)Smith didnt drop the charges because there were still crimes worth prosecuting, Nauta didnt have the benefit of SCOTUS declared immunity, and in any case, Smith resigned before that could occur. It was the Trump DOJ that dropped the charges.
I know you already know this, but omit it from your anti-Garland rants because it refutes your evidence-free opinion, so this is for the benefit of the casual reader who might be scrolling by:
Garland was building a case to charge Trump with unlawful retention of national defense information, because it is almost impossible to meet the charging criteria for Unlawful removal or unlawful possession when charging a former president (otherwise Biden would have faced criminal charges as well).
Because the case was focused on retention, the Archives played a key role in documenting the correspondence and attempts to retrieve documents, establishing that Trump refused to return certain documents - again, this proved willful, deliberate retention as opposed to simple possession, which is what your rants seem to focus on. After multiple attempts and refusals, Garland had enough evidence to convince a judge to sign off on the search warrant for MAL.