A Postscript to the 10/17/21 Post on The Tyranny of the Democrats, Part I

It's hard not to love a politician who speaks so directly.  Such is the case with Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).  On October 21, the House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing of the Department of Justice.  In the hot seat was Attorney General Merrick Garland, the AG who issued the directive discussed in Part I of the 10/17/21 posts.  

Here is no nonsense Jordan:  "The Chairman (Jerry Nadler, D-NY) just said the Trump DOJ was political and went after their opponents.  Are you kidding me?  Three weeks ago the National School Board Association writes President Biden asking him to involve the FBI in local school Board matters.  Five days later, the Attorney General of the United States does just that..."

Jordan:  "Republicans on the Committee have sent the Attorney General 13 letters in the last six months.  It takes weeks and months to get a response.  Eight of the letters we've got nothing...And all our letters were actually sent to the Attorney General."  What Congressman Jordan knows, of course, is that the National School Board/teachers/administrators donate to the Democratic Party.  But it is a joke when Nadler says Trump's DOJ was political, but won't say the same about Biden's, which is obviously political. 

It turns out that the National School Board backed off of their initial assertions that "threats and acts of violence" might constitute "domestic terrorism."  One would think that the Board's retraction might get the AG to rescind his directive.  But not so.  Garland insisted that the threat of violence still existed.  Dear General Garland:  When did all local violence become a federal matter?    

Former retired FBI agent Thomas J. Baker had an Op-Ed in the 10/18/21 Wall Street Journal.  Baker:  When FDR's AG, Francis Biddle, ordered that Japanese-Americans be detained, "J. Edgar Hoover (then FBI Director) refused to cooperate.  The bureau would help apprehend aliens of enemy nationality (not only Japanese), but not U.S. citizens."  

Baker:  "Louis Freeh (another former FBI Director) often dodged meetings, contacts and invitations from President Bill Clinton so as not to receive awkward requests."  

Baker's suggestion for the current FBI Director, Christopher Wray?  "He could remind the public, and hence Mr. Garland, that the FBI - in conformity with existing attorney general guidelines for domestic investigations - won't undertake any investigation based on speech alone.  He could remind agents and the public that if any violence occurs at a local schoolboard meeting, its resolution is properly the purview of state and local law enforcement." 

Remember when former FBI Director James Comey alleged that Trump demanded loyalty from him, and Comey said he should have stood up to Trump, but instead "compromised to avoid a conflict."  Clearly, he was too weak a man to be FBI Director.  Will Christopher Wray stand up to Garland?  We should all be listening.