Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo to Justice Department employees reiterating the department’s policy of not communicating with members of Congress. Garland stated that the Office of Legislative Affairs must handle all communications with Congress (OLA). “No department employee may communicate with Senators, Representatives, congressional committees, or congressional staff without prior coordination, consultation, and approval by OLA,” according to DOJ policy.
As Fox News reports:
“All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt,” says Justice Manual 1-8.000.
Garland said these policies were designed to protect the DOJ’s “criminal and civil law enforcement decisions, and its legal judgments, from partisan or other inappropriate influences, whether real or perceived, direct or indict.”
They are also designed, Garland said, “to ensure that Congress may carry out its legislative investigatory and oversight functions.”
Garland insisted that such policies were not “intended to conflict with or limit whistleblower protections.”
The memorandum follows a turbulent few months for the DOJ and the FBI. Tim Thibault, an assistant special agent-in-charge in the District of Columbia, retired over the weekend amid allegations that he interfered with the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop.
In the words of Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain, there are two kinds of lies; plain lies, and damn lies..
And the lies of this joker definitely qualify as the latter.
F’n WEASEL!
Translation: we need to keep our keisters covered.
Herr gestapo Garland is tightening his grip on his disloyal subservient peon employees.
Obviously the criminal Garland is trying to but a lie on a dabgerous boiling pot. Lis lie will not suffice.
My take away from this is , “you are not allowed to tell on us for breaking the law. You tell us and we will investigate ourselves”.
garland is trying to cover his ass! he knows he has screwed up with the bogus raid on mar a largo
In other words “NO WHISTLE Blowers are allowed to blow the whistle which is an F U Moment to Mr. Garland Pfft
Restriction of free speech.
DO IT anyway screw Garland
I thiught Dems loved whistleblowers???
Where are our distinguished Republican (NON)-Representatives allowing garland to establish his own rules to protect him and his democRAT colleagues and withhold information detrimental to American Liberties and Freedoms.
THE F.B.I. HAVE BEEN THE LONG ARM OF THE DEMOCRATS. THEY ARE LIKE THE GESTAPO!!!
You can add NATIONAL ARCHIVIST to Obama’s “deep state”.
Our three-letter fed’l agencies: FBI, CIA, IRS, and CYA.
Thank God Merrick Garland never got onto the Supreme Court. He is a political hack who history will look unfavorably upon. May he rot in hell for using the DOJ and FBI as the Praetorian Guard of the Democrats.