Merrick Garland revisited: Not a timid incompetent, but a corrupt, complicit traitor?

Early on, in May of 2021 it was clear to me that Merrick Garland was not going to seriously go after DJT and his cadre of thugs, traitors and grifters. Thus calling for firing him for timidity and gross incompetence seemed like sound reasoning based on the evidence I relied on. One of the deeply disturbing things that set me off in 2021 was an informed assessment that the Mueller report faded away, as if it had all been for nothing. To this day, DJT crimes the Mueller report clearly documented  have not been prosecuted. That bit of nastiness is footnoted in my blog post.

Legal analysis of 4 documented instances of obstruction

of justice felonies that DJT committed during the Mueller 

investigation -- all 4 are documented in detail in the Mueller report

Garland never prosecuted any of those felonies

Now, after being made aware of some information, I'm not at all sure that timid incompetence was the correct way to view the situation. That assessment was very likely wrong. It definitely was based on incomplete knowledge. That is always a danger. 

Anyway, I was just made aware of some deeply disturbing things about Garland and his mentor Jamie Gorelick I was ignorant about. Although what I quote below might sound to some like deranged crackpot conspiracy theory, there seems to be at least a reasonably good and defensible basis in circumstances to support the idea that Garland is not a timid incompetent, but instead is a deeply corrupt, complicit traitor. 

The information comes from Sarah Kendzior, an author, anthropologist, researcher, and scholar. She has a Wikipedia page. From that information, she does not appear to be a crackpot. At her substack, Sarah Kendzior's Newsletter, she wrote this in Nov. of 2023 in a very long article, Servants of the Mafia State; Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth:

I have told this story in pieces over the years. I am now putting the information in one article to make it easier to find. The story touches on so many atrocities that it is impossible for me to cover them all, and I encourage folks to pick up where I left off. The point of describing a crisis is to give people tools to fix it. This shadow network affects everyone, regardless of where you live or for whom you voted.

It is common to hear Garland described as an institutionalist. This is true. He protects a broken and corrupt institution, the Department of Justice. He protects it instead of protecting the United States or its people. He protects it above democracy or freedom or a future. He protects it over justice itself.

The DOJ Industrial Propaganda Complex that emerges when any critique of Garland is made insists that justice is imminent. They bleat that Garland is merely “dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s”.

Which he is, in the word COMPLICIT.

Garland is not unique in his role as a mafia state enabler. He follows a long line of DOJ cover-up operatives marketed as saviors of American democracy: James Comey, Robert Mueller, Bill Barr, Cy Vance, and so on. Over and over, Americans are told that these prosecutors are going to “get Trump” and dismantle his criminal network. Over and over, they serve their real role, which is to run out the clock and allow criminal elites to escape accountability.

The FBI and DOJ need to protect Trump, because in doing so, they protect themselves.

Many fail to understand Garland’s role due to an elaborate propaganda network (the mechanics of which I will break down) and a reluctance to recognize complicity among officials who are often portrayed as feuding. It is easier to attribute disaster to one political party instead of examining networks and recurring figures responsible for a multitude of tragedies over the past twenty-five years.

Jamie Gorelick is one of these figures, a Forrest Gump of 21st century corruption. Like Garland, she is a Democrat who serves GOP objectives, the most notable of which for Garland was working as Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s lawyer and getting them the White House clearances that they should have been denied due to conflicts of interest.

As a result of Gorelick’s actions, Kushner gained classified intelligence that he likely shared with or sold to foreign states, including Saudi Arabia, from which he pocketed two billion dollars, and Israel, to which he has been tied since birth due to his family’s long friendship with the Netanyahu family, to the point that Benjamin Netanyahu slept in Jared’s bed when visiting the United States.

Garland has refused to investigate Kushner. A likely reason is that, were he to investigate Kushner – who remains a profound national security threat – he would also be investigating his best friend.

It is one big club, and it is destroying our country.

Crises of institutional integrity are beyond partisanship. They cannot be fixed by elections. They can only begin to be remedied when the rot is revealed. The road to accountability begins with evidence, context, and history.

Reckoning with this horror is difficult, but an informed public is a powerful public. Never forget that state officials are paid to serve you. You deserve more than a plate of platitudes meant to weaken your capacity for critical thought.

Merrick Garland gained national prominence when he was blocked from the Supreme Court by Republicans in 2016. The refusal of the GOP to hold hearings gave the Americans the false impression that Garland is a staunch Democrat and defender of liberty.

In reality, the GOP refusal had little to do with Garland, but with their desire to pack the court with right-wing extremists once Trump ascended. Garland is not a right-wing extremist. He is a cog who serves corrupt interests under the guise of being “moderate” and “cautious” – stalling investigations and blocking evidence from public view. That is what he did during his brief tenure at the Clinton DOJ from 1994-1997. That is what he does at the Biden DOJ now.

GOP extremists have long praised Garland. In 2017, after Trump fired James Comey, Mitch McConnell suggested that Garland become the FBI director.

“I have spoken with the president about it. I recommended Merrick Garland,” McConnell said in May 2017. He recited the propaganda line that Garland “was the prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing case.” (Garland was not. The lead prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing case was Joseph Hartzler, and how that lie gets circulated will be explained later.) McConnell added that Garland “would make it clear that President Trump will continue the tradition at the FBI of having an apolitical professional.”

In October 2021, Donald Trump praised Garland as “a good man” and said he was glad Garland was Attorney General. At that point, the DOJ had not even opened an inquiry into the Capitol attack, a dereliction of duty that was obvious to anyone with eyes and ears, but which Garland’s backers staunchly denied until time had run out, and it was too late.

In other words, once Garland and Trump had achieved their goals.

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There is much more. I am only including highlights because if I were to list every crime she [Jamie Gorelick] abetted, I would have an epic.

It is time to move onto another job for which she remains largely uncredited: Merrick Garland’s chief propagandist.

From evidence like that, Kendzior says that 

the DoJ has a troll bot propaganda farm that

made the DoJ and Garland look good

It does look sort of suspicious

Kendzior's article about Garland and his close friend and mentor Jamie Gorelick is very long and packed with depressing details of corruption and sleaze, and including links to information that back up those details. Maybe all of this sounds like crackpot conspiracy theory to some, but to me it has the feel of truth, sad and discouraging as it is.

Based on this, I reassess Garland. He is not a timid incompetent defending his valiant DoJ institution. He more likely is a corrupt, complicit traitor who maintains the moral rot in the DoJ. If so, Garland's moral rot is on a level with DJT himself. 

Q1: Is it plausible that Garland is a corrupt, complicit traitor instead of a timid incompetent?

Q2: In view of the evidence that Kendzior cites, did Biden make a major mistake in making Garland attorney general, or did Biden know what Garland was but nominated him anyway (or did Obama err in nominating Garland for the supreme court)? 

Exactly what are you, just a scared and 

inept "institutionalist" or something far worse?