WHY THE GOP INFATUATION WITH
MERRICK GARLAND? Exclusive: Joseph Farah explains
lawyer's involvement in botched OKC prosecution, by Joseph Farah, 5/15/17, WND
It seems Washington Republicans can’t get their mind off
Merrick Garland, Barack Obama’s pick in 2016 to replace Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia.
I guess we should be thankful the Republican Senate didn’t
cave in and agree to confirm Garland before the presidential election.
But, since then, it seems every day another Republican
senator volunteers Garland as a replacement for James Comey as FBI director.
I can understand anything Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell does. He’s an establishment guy all the way. But Sen. Mike Lee? What
is that about?
Garland is a loyal Democrat – one with close ties to former
Deputy Attorney General Jaime Gorelick under Bill Clinton. Does anyone remember
Gorelick? She was the mastermind of the policy that created a wall between the
FBI and other intelligence agencies on terrorist threats – one of the reasons
no one connected the dots leading up to the catastrophe of 9/11. To ensure she
never got the blame, she was then appointed to co-author the report of the 9/11
Commission.
In fact, what Garland is most well-known for is the investigation
he led into the other big terrorist attack – the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. It
was Gorelick, his college buddy, who appointed him to that task. It was Garland
who rushed Timothy McVeigh to be executed even though there was ample evidence
of other conspirators and suspects.
In an Atlantic article last year, McVeigh’s attorney.
Stephen Jones, had this to say about that key decision: “I think some of the
decisions (by Garland) made later on boiled down to a pragmatic approach” not
to pursue other accomplices.
Pragmatic decisions not to pursue other accomplices? Does
that sound like the kind of person who should be the next FBI director?
Does anyone in this country actually believe the
investigation and prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombing case was a model for
how terrorist attacks should be handled? It was a debacle.
In fact, the work of intrepid
reporter Jayna Davis, author of “The
Third Terrorist,” suggests even in 1995 there
was a rush by the government to conclude the bombing was the work of a few
“right-wing domestic terrorists” with all other evidence disregarded.
That kind of “pragmatic” approach by Garland ensured we
would never know the full truth about Oklahoma City bombing. And without
knowing the full truth, 9/11 became inevitable – especially with the teamwork
between Gorelick and Garland.
Of course, Republicans allowed that to happen in the 1990s,
even though it was all directed by Democrats like Gorelick and Garland. So
maybe it shouldn’t surprise me now that many are actually bringing up Garland’s
name to head the FBI.
Let me tell you what I think about that: It’s insanity.
Are Republicans like Lee and McConnell trying to win brownie
points with the Democrats? Do they really think that will count for something?
Why don’t they just determine to utterly defeat their opponents now that they
control all three branches of government? Isn’t that what Democrats do even
when they are out of power and losing elections left and right?
Are there no other qualified people to head the FBI? What
makes Merrick Garland so attractive? Why not someone with actual investigative
law enforcement experience? Isn’t that what has made the FBI so effective in
decades past? How about getting back to real police work, instead of handing
over the most vital law-enforcement agency in America to the “pragmatic”
establishment lawyers?
I don’t get it. Is it a Deep State thing? All I know is we
should not look to anyone who headed the investigation and prosecution of the
Oklahoma City bombing to have anything to do with running the FBI – or, for
that matter, to serve on the Supreme Court.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/why-the-gop-infatuation-with-merrick-garland/#3rUELAGYrkZMzJv6.99
Comments
I think the Dems are obsessing about Garland
because they want their guy in the FBI Director job to ensure that Liberal sins
during the Obama years are not investigated.
I think Republicans have unwisely been trying
to find out what Democrats want to trade in exchange for their votes on
Healthcare and Taxes. This is a fool’s
errand. I think Democrats tell them that they want Garland appointed to the FBI
job. Republicans need to ignore the
Democrats and concentrate on the workability of their Bills and getting all of
their Republicans on board.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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