Hate crime reports in US surge to the highest level in 12 years, FBI says (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images) MARK FELIX/AFP/Getty Images TOPSHOT - Sally Sha holds up a sign during a Stop Asian Hate rally at Discovery Green in downtown Houston, Texas on March 20, 2021. Biden said last week at a CNN town hall that he had been wrong to make that statement. In a scathing opening statement, Grassley, an Iowa Republican, claimed that President Joe Biden has “politicized” department decision-making in telling reporters the department should prosecute witnesses who defy subpoenas in the House probe. Garland’s appearance before the committee came as the Justice Department weighs whether to prosecute Steve Bannon – a close ally of former President Donald Trump – after the House voted to hold him in contempt for not cooperating in its January 6 investigation. Questions about DOJ’s January 6 probe approach “The only act here is assessing the circumstances. “I would have hated it to have gotten this letter and then acts of violence occurred in the interim before we were able to act,” Garland said during an exchange with Sen. Several of the Republicans focused on how quickly DOJ released the memo, a few days after the White House received a request from the school board association for federal assistance.
Garland hopes 'as much as possible' of Durham report will be public Grassley, in his opening statement Wednesday, said, “The last thing the Justice Department and FBI need is a very vague memo to unleash their power – especially when they’ve shown zero interest in holding their own accountable.”ĭemocrats have defended the memo, with Durbin telling Garland Wednesday that “those who argue that school board meetings are not more dangerous and more violent than in the past are ignoring reality.” (The memo makes no reference to domestic terrorism.) Republicans have equated the Justice Department’s approach with treating parents like “domestic terrorists” for protesting schools’ Covid protocols and methods of teaching about race in American history. Several GOP committee members battered Garland with questions about the memo, which Republicans have sought to make a focal issue in the Virginia gubernatorial election. The only thing that Justice Department is concerned about is violence and threats of violence.” “It alters some of the language in the letter language in the letter that we did not rely on and is not contained in my own memorandum. “The letter that we that was subsequently sent does not change the association’s concern about violence with threats of violence,” Garland said Wednesday. TASOS KATOPODIS/AFP/POOL/Getty ImagesĪG Garland confirms 'new evidence' in review of decision not to prosecute FBI agents handling Nassar probe US Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Oversight of the United States Department of Justice," on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, October 27, 2021.
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