On Tuesday, Merrick Garland, the heavy handed official who’s convinced he really runs America as head of the Just Us Department, issued a stern crackdown on political free speech among the ranks of his minions. It’s seen as a thinly veiled warning for Federal Bureau of Instigation agents not to go around talking to congress. If you blow the whistle, don’t get caught, he warns. Because even suggesting such a thing would be illegal, the GG puts a little *asterisk flag in his memo, along with a fine-print disclaimer that such policies were not “intended to conflict with or limit whistleblower protections.”
Garland silences his staffers
On Tuesday, August 30, Gestapo General Merrick Garland “announced new restrictions on the political activities of political appointees in the Justice Department, including restricting their ability to participate in partisan political events.”
Don’t even think about thinking about attending a Donald Trump rally. Type one word of doubt or negativity about the Bureau on Facebook and you’ll be pounding the pavement.
He admits that, before the raid on Mar-a-Lago and allegations surfaced that the Hunter Biden investigation was intentionally stonewalled to influence the outcome of the 2020 election, personnel were allowed freedom in their personal lives. Not anymore.
NEW: Attorney General Merrick Garland also sent a memo today reminding DOJ employees of the policies around communications with Congress. pic.twitter.com/8lN5tlyE7C
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 30, 2022
“Although longstanding Department policy has permitted non-career appointees to attend partisan political events, e.g., fundraisers and campaign events, in their personal capacities if they participated passively and obtained prior approval,” Garland wrote, “under the new policy, non-career appointees may not participate in any partisan political event in any capacity.”
There are no exceptions, Garland proclaimed. None. Not even “for those whose family members are running for office, an exception that was made in previous years.” Like for Bruce Orr. The really interesting part of his memo was what he had to say about “the department’s policy of prohibiting communication with members of Congress.”
Every day, more and more death threats are pouring into bureau switchboards nationwide. While they’re used to that from extremists, the latest calls have been coming from grandparents and soccer moms.
No communication with Congress
Merrick Garland said with his tone what he couldn’t legally say in the text. “All communication with Congress” he wrote in all caps, highlighted, marked bold and underlined in blood, “must be handled by the Office of Legislative Affairs. No department employee may communicate with Senators, Representatives, congressional committees, or congressional staff without advance coordination, consultation, and approval by OLA.”
Those who do will be thrown in prison for a very long time.
“All congressional inquiries and correspondence from Members, committees, and staff should be immediately directed to OLA upon receipt.”
If they find out a Senator’s aide took an agent for coffee, Garland implies, and pumped them about why nobody has raided Hunter Biden’s home, they better rat out the infiltration attempt or suffer the consequences. Absolute secrecy is a must in government he insists. If the public doesn’t know what you’re doing, then they don’t know what you’re doing wrong.
According to Gestapo General Garland, “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 indirect.”
Especially when those “decisions” are illegal, immoral and probably fattening, too. Over the weekend, Tim Thibault, “an assistant special agent-in-charge in the District of Columbia,” cleaned out his desk and quit “amid allegations that he supposedly ran interference in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop.” That doesn’t make the bureau look real good because they still have no answer to why he wasn’t fired.
