DOJ Refuses to Prosecute Merrick Garland After House Voted to Hold Him in Contempt
The Justice Department on Friday declined to prosecute Attorney General Merrick Garland following a vote by the House to hold him in contempt for refusing to turn over audio recordings of Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.
Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) explaining that Joe Biden had “asserted executive privilege and directed” Garland not to “release materials” subpoenaed by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
“That directive was based on a legal opinion from the Department of Justice (Department) advising that asserting privilege would be legally proper,” the DOJ wrote.
“The President’s directive was issued after the Department produced materials responsive to all four requests in the Committee’s subpoenas. The Department provided Special Counsel Hur’s report without any additional redactions and facilitated his congressional testimony.”
“The Department has determined that the responses by Attorney General Garland to the subpoenas issued by the Committees did not constitute a crime, and accordingly the Department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General,” the DOJ’s letter added.
The House voted 216 to 207 on Wednesday hold Garland in contempt of Congress for not complying with subpoenas for “records, including transcripts, notes, video, and audio files,” relating to Hur’s investigation of Biden’s “willful mishandling of classified information,” the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability stated in a press release.
Hur declined to prosecute Biden for unlawfully retaining classified documents in part because he believed a jury would perceive Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
The Committee then requested the audio tapes of Hur’s interview with Biden after Garland “only provided written transcripts” that were deemed “insufficient.”
The DOJ’s refusal to prosecute Garland for defying a subpoena comes as President Trump’s former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon had been ordered to report to prison on July 1 for a four-month sentence after he defied a subpoena from the Democrat-run House January 6 Committee.
Putin’s Peace Offer ‘Not Serious, Says Germany’s Scholz
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s new proposal to achieve a lasting peace between Moscow and Kiev, branding the overture a ploy to distract the global community from the Swiss-hosted Ukraine ‘peace summit.’
Speaking to the country’s top diplomats on Friday, Putin signaled that Russia “will order a ceasefire and start negotiations” as soon as Kiev completely withdraws its troops from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions.
The four regions overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in referendums in the fall of 2022. Neither the West nor Kiev recognized the votes.
Other conditions for a lasting peace, according to Putin, include Ukraine’s neutral status, a pledge not to seek to acquire nuclear weapons, “demilitarization” and “denazification,” and respect for the rights of the Russian-speaking population. All of those points should be fundamentally recognized at the international level, followed by the removal of Western sanctions against Russia, the president said.
However, in an interview with the broadcaster ZDF on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy on Saturday, Scholz stated that “everyone knows that it is not a serious proposal,” suggesting that “it has something to do with the peace conference taking place in Switzerland.” He also claimed that the initiative revealed that Putin was after “the classic, realistic conquest of land.”
In similar remarks, the proposal was dismissed by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, who branded it “nothing different than other ultimatums that he has made before.” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also claimed that “this is not a proposal made in good faith,” adding that it would require Kiev to “give up significantly more land” than Russia currently controls.
Putin’s new peace overture comes ahead of the Swiss-hosted conference on Ukraine this weekend. The event is expected to revolve around Zelensky’s ten-point ‘peace formula,’ which demands that Russia, among other things, withdraw from all territories claimed by Kiev. Moscow has rejected the initiative as detached from reality.
According to Zelensky, the ‘peace summit’ will focus only on three points of Kiev’s plan: prisoner exchanges, and nuclear and food security. Putin has dismissed the conference as a Western trick to create the illusion of a global anti-Russian coalition, distract attention from the roots of the conflict, and boost Zelensky’s claim to legitimacy after his presidential term expired last month.
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