(Bill Barr Photo by Doug Mills/New York Times) (Merrick Garland Photo byTom Brenner/New York Times)
There have been some op-eds saying that Attorney General Merrick Garland made a mistake appointing a "special prosecutor," Jack Smith, to handle the national security information heist and the January 6 Insurrection matters involving The Grievance Boy. Garland's appointment of a special prosecutor was not a mistake. It was intentional.
It has been clear for a while now that there is enough evidence already to prosecute The Grievance Boy on both counts, theft of national intelligence documents and Insurrection. However, Merrick Garland has not prosecuted. It is not because Garland does not think the evidence is there. It's because he does not want to prosecute.
Appointing a special prosecutor in these matters will take the pressure off Merrick Garland to prosecute, but not in the way most people think. Garland appointed a special prosecutor not to prosecute. He appointed someone else to take the blame for out-loud declining to prosecute The Grievance Guy. The special prosecutor is there not to take no action, but to take action and decline to prosecute.
Shades of Bill Barr haunting us still. Barr famously took another special prosecutor's report, held on to it until he had put his own spin on it that the special prosecutor's report actually exonerated The Grievance Boy (it did not), then released the report which was so long that many people did not bother to read it; after all, Barr read it so they did not have to, they thought.
This time there will be no spin by the Attorney General. When his special counsel issues his report that there will be no prosecution of The Grievance Guy, the Attorney General will not hide it and misrepresent it. This Attorney General will put this special counsel's report on the evening news, on the Department of Justice website, and on the bulletin board at your local grocery store. That is why this special counsel was appointed in the first place.
Today of course is the 59th anniversary of the murder of President John F. Kennedy. 2023 will mark 60 years, half a century, since that terrible day. For a previous generation, the death date to remember was when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died. That generation is almost entirely gone now. For my generation, the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy's death is a sign that our generation is departing, but hopefully it is also a sign that we remember the way it was and that we will not go quietly into that good night.
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