Attorney General Merrick Garland Breaks Silence: I Approved Search Warrant on Donald Trump's Home

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[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This directly contradicts the Newsweek sources reported by veteran Newsweek shit-shovelling reporter William M. Arkin:

He insists, though, that Garland had no prior knowledge of the date and time of the specific raid, nor was he asked to approve it. "I know it's hard for people to believe," says the official, "but this was a matter for the U.S. Attorney and the FBI."

FBI director Christopher Wray ultimately gave his go-ahead to conduct the raid, the senior Justice official says. "It really is a case of the Bureau misreading the impact."

Newsweek called them “two senior government officials” with “direct knowledge of the FBI’s deliberations.” One, “a senior Justice Department official who is a 30-year veteran of the FBI."

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-informer-told-fbi-what-docs-trump-was-hiding-where-1732283

Even the local police weren't let in on it: https://twitter.com/PalmBeachPolice/status/1557062195019751426

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Probably an error on the part of newsweek.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Newsweek simply quoted a 30-year FBI veteran with direct knowledge they trusted...purportedly.

Someone is lying. It's easy to blame the unnamed source....but I'd like to consider the suspicion that this huge and overt screw up was a calculated risk that failed and was colluded on by a multitude of higher-ups, who then drew straws to see who took public blame.

Edit: It seems I'm not the only one who noticed... https://www.foxnews.com/media/newsweek-blasted-incorrectly-claiming-merrick-garland-didnt-know-about-fbis-trump-raid

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Someone is lying.

Or they're mistaken. Which is most likely to be newsweek, since they famously don't employ fact checkers.