Within days of becoming attorney general, he assembled his deputies and told them to turn over every Trump rock. Blame a lumbering system—and an electorate that didn’t care.
I don't at all buy your argument. Garland's approach was the classical and typical methodology used by federal prosecutors for years, especially in the investigation and prosecution of organized crime. This methodology started with targeting and turning the perpetrators at the bottom to get them to cooperate on implicating the more serious perpetrators above them, and so on. Going up the ladder of targeted perpetrators was a long and slow process, but it worked for investigating and prosecuting La Cosa Nostra and organized crime in general. That methodology was carried over into the investigation of Trump, but time was of the essence in targeting Trump, and no one in the DOJ had the nerve to tell Garland to look at his calendar. It was a massive mistake to apply the old well-entrenched bureaucratic formula to holding Trump accountable. The 18 months lost by Garland in not appointing a Special Prosecutor allowed Trump to escape accountability. The buck stopped with him. I hold Garland personally accountable for his failure to bring Trump to justice.
I don't at all buy your argument. Garland's approach was the classical and typical methodology used by federal prosecutors for years, especially in the investigation and prosecution of organized crime. This methodology started with targeting and turning the perpetrators at the bottom to get them to cooperate on implicating the more serious perpetrators above them, and so on. Going up the ladder of targeted perpetrators was a long and slow process, but it worked for investigating and prosecuting La Cosa Nostra and organized crime in general. That methodology was carried over into the investigation of Trump, but time was of the essence in targeting Trump, and no one in the DOJ had the nerve to tell Garland to look at his calendar. It was a massive mistake to apply the old well-entrenched bureaucratic formula to holding Trump accountable. The 18 months lost by Garland in not appointing a Special Prosecutor allowed Trump to escape accountability. The buck stopped with him. I hold Garland personally accountable for his failure to bring Trump to justice.
I agree with you completely. Garland is fully to blame for this. There’s no writing this off.