Opinion: Democrats turn up the heat on DOJ for burying a key Trump document

[Judi Lynn]

Opinion by
Greg Sargent
Columnist
June 16, 2021 at 3:13 p.m. CDT


President Biden’s Justice Department is in an undeniably difficult position. Given the epic corruption of the department by his predecessor, Donald Trump, maximal transparency and accountability are now imperative. But this will inevitably clash with the department’s understandable desire to cling to certain institutional prerogatives.

Senate Democrats have a key role to play in pushing the department toward transparency and accountability. And they are doing so, prompted by the department’s highly questionable refusal to release the full memo that purportedly justified former Attorney General William P. Barr’s decision not to charge Trump with criminal obstruction of justice in the Russia scandal.

All 11 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee just fired off a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, calling on him to release this memo in full, with no redactions. Led by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the committee chair, they argue that precedence and transparency require it.

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The memo is important because it could shed light on how the department — and, more broadly, the rule of law — were deeply corrupted to help Trump escape accountability for potential crimes.

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/16/democrats-turn-up-heat-doj-burying-key-trump-document/

[Grasswire2]

1. Any one of them could read it into the Congressional Record, with impunity.

Just do it.

It's that important.

[monkeyman1]

2. complete transparency mean's no redaction ! thats the x-doj bs !!

[ShazamIam]

3. This along with the previous revelations about how corrupt the DOJ became under Trump

should be sufficient evidence for announcing a thorough investigation and reassessment of the staff with the goal of firing those who are engaged iin or have been engaged in clearly illegal acts and believe they are on the, right, path.

Like how the military is or pretending to do something about the White Nationalists who since the end of the draft were very deliberately recruited into all the branches of the military.