AG Garland Doesn’t Know If DOJ Is Investigating Hunter Media Leaks, Doesn’t Recollect …

On 9/20/2023, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Republicans grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney General Merrick Garland testified that he never had any discussions with U.S. attorney David Weiss regarding details of the Hunter Biden investigation, while at the same time affirming to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the prosecutor had total authority over the probe — despite just granting him special counsel authority last month.

Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday as part of the panel’s hearing to examine how the Justice Department has “become politicized and weaponized under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland.”

Garland, during testimony, stressed that he is “not the president’s lawyer,” and that the Justice Department’s “job is to follow the facts and the law, and that is what we do.”

Republicans pressed Garland on whether he had any discussions about the Hunter Biden investigation with Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware who has been leading the probe since 2018, to which he repeatedly denied.

“I promised the Senate that I would not interfere… I would not influence the investigation,” Garland said. “I do not intend to discuss internal Justice Department deliberations, whether or not I had them.”

Garland also said he does not know “the specifics of the investigation.”

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Garland repeatedly said during the first hours of his testimony that he never had discussions with Weiss about the investigation, and said the prosecutor had the necessary tools to continue his years-long probe into President Biden’s son.

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Transcript Highlights

Transcribed from the video audio:

• Garland, have you or are you investigating who leaked the information that appeared in the Washington Post on October 6, 2022 about this investigation, about the Hunter Biden investigation
• October 6, 2022, Washington Post writes a story about the Hunter Biden investigation
• I’m just wondering, as you investigated, who leaked that information to the Washington Post
• Has it been referred to the Inspector General
• I don’t want my answer to suggest that there is or isn’t such an investigation
• I know that the Inspector General sent a letter to Congress explaining that he had an ongoing assessment with respect to the whistleblowers charges
• I don’t know if that’s what you’re referring to
• Our job is not to do what is politically convenient
• Our job is not to take orders from the President, from Congress, or from anyone else about who or what to criminally investigate
• As the President himself has said, and I reaffirm today, I am not the President’s lawyer