Merrick Garland just came as close as he can to confirming that DOJ is investigating January 6

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24. The OP is necessary because the board is inundated with posts insisting

that the fact that the public hasn't been given details about investigations means no investigations are happening and no prosecutions will be forthcoming - and demanding that AG Garland say something.

Well, he did. But, of course, that hasn't satisfied most of the critics.

As for Whitehouse's comment - I also have a lot of respect for him. But if you read the article, he's not talking about Garland's approach to investigating or prosecuting Trump and his ilk or even suggesting that he does not have it in him to do it aggressively or properly. He's talking about something else altogether - institutional reforms that need to happen in order to prevent the kind of political meddling in the Department's work that Trump and Barr engaged in.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, proposes the formation of a commission made up of respected Justice Department alumni from both parties to draw lessons from the past.

I have no problem with what Sen. Whitehouse said - it doesn't conflict on any way with what I've been saying about Garland and in no way criticizes his handling of the criminal investigation into Trump and his cronies. In fact, among the proposals that Senator Whitehouse endorses are making clear the attorney general should obey the same strictures against discussing investigations in public that line prosecutors follow and taking firmer steps to ensure that improper partisan motivations do not guide actions - two things that the AG is already doing and catching hell for.