"Sure, they’ll go after the small people & prosecute the dude w/the horns & charge the the cattle prod guy. But when it comes to prosecuting the powerful—the congresspeople & financiers who aided & abetted the insurrection—Garland & Wray show no desire to take on that challenge."
The Department of Justice Is Letting the Coup Plotters Get Away
thenation.com/article/politi…
"The failure of the DOJ to investigate the planning of the putsch is all the more shameful given the publicly available evidence that the insurrectionists may have had help on the inside."
"The people who sacked the Capitol made a beeline for the Senate parliamentarian’s office. Pictures after the putsch showed that the office had been ransacked. The location of that office is not obvious; it’s one of those places that is hard to find unless you’ve been there...
...before. But insurrectionists somehow got there & began looking for hard copies of the electoral votes Congress was meant to certify that day. Had they gotten their hands on those votes, even for a moment, they would have broken the chain of custody of the Electoral College...
...count and at least delayed the certification of the election, AS WAS THEIR GOAL."
"Garland quite simply does not appear to be doing his job & bringing full force of his office to bear on this investigation. He seems to be punting the issue, leaving it to congressional oversight instead of criminal prosecutions...
...He seems content to prosecute the low-hanging fruit instead of holding the powerful accountable for their actions. But Garland, the DOJ & FBI have a duty to prosecute those responsible for the attack on our Capitol, not just those who carried out the plan. Why aren’t they??"

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