http://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/06/11/doj-searched-for-connections-between-it-and-alvin-braggs-office-and-found-none-n2397180
As we reported earlier today, Attorney General Merrick Garland published an op-ed in the Washington Post called, "Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end." That sounds a little bit like a threat. We agree with him to a point, though; there are enough things about the Justice Department to attack without resorting to unfounded attacks.
Well, that's the thing ... there have not been unfounded attacks ... just legitimate questions, concerns, and criticisms about a government department that is showing itself to be operating outside its lane of authority. And, Garland's paranoid assertion that DOJ personnel are receiving genuine threats of violence against their persons is just so much silly horsesh!t. If a nutjob or two have made such threats, then send the FBI to deal with it, but don't attempt to paint this as some threat from the American people, in general, you lying asswipe.
Last week, an equally defensive Merrick testified in front of Congress, and Rep. Matt Gaetz asked what Merrick knew about the No. 3 man at the Justice Department resigning to make the "remarkable downstream career journey" to a line prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office just as the prosecution of Donald Trump was about to begin. Garland insisted he knew nothing about it, and that Matthew Collangelo must have just "applied for a job there."
House Republicans demanded any correspondence between the Justice Department and Bragg's office, but after an "exhaustive" search, came up with nothing.
The Hill (@thehill) ~ The DOJ informed House Republicans that an exhaustive search yielded no communications between the department and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/4715389-justice-says-it-did-not-communicate-with-manhattan-da-blasts-gop-conspiracy-theory/
It's just another one of those GOP conspiracy theories that put hard-working Justice Department employees in danger.
Deebs (@DeebsFLA) ~ "exhaustive"
Yeah, RIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT! ROTFLMAO! YOU investigated YOURSELF and you could find nothing wrong, eh?! BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Garland, you have the mentality of a petulant two-year-old.
Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) ~ This is such a crock of sh*t. Colangelo left DOJ on Friday, Dec 2, 2022. Colangelo started working in Bragg's office on Monday, Dec 5, 2022.
Obviously, Bragg and Colangelo were in communication while Colangelo was at DOJ. That they didn't use DOJ email should be equally obvious.
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) ~ NEWS: DOJ has informed House Republicans that they searched for any contact between DOJ leaders — including Matthew Colangelo — and Alvin Bragg's office and found none.
"The conspiracy theory ... is not only false, it is irresponsible."
You're right, it is NOT "unsurprising" that you found nothing ... because you only did a half-ass search of his official e-mail account, found nothing, breathed a sigh of relief, and stopped your insincere "investigation" right there. ROTFLMAO ... what a bunch of transparently pathetic chumps you are!
That really is a coincidence that Colangelo would take a massive salary cut to move from the Justice Department to the Manhattan District Attorney's office. He must have put in that application really quickly, and it must have been stellar to get hired three days later.
Keith Burton (@bbeekk321) ~ We investigated ourselves and found ourselves to be completely innocent.
Sean Davis (@seanmdav) ~ If only there were ways for people to communicate outside of work e-mail. But according to Fusion Kyle and the illiterates at Politico, Matthew Colangelo somehow left DOJ and joined Bragg’s office three days later without ever talking to anyone in Bragg’s office. Call it the Immaculate Corruption!
Sean Davis (@seanmdav) ~ Also, DOJ is lying. Kinda figured that went without saying, but you never know.
Maybe they learned from Anthony "Tony" Fauci to use their personal email accounts and not their government accounts and phones. After all, Fauci's deputy David Mortens told EcoHealth Alliance Director Peter Daszak not to worry about FOIAs ... he could always "send stuff to Tony on his private Gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that would cause trouble."
FoiaFan (@15poundstogo) ~ Colangelo led the NY AG’s civil inquiry on Trump before Biden brought him back into the DOJ. He also handled NY’s lawsuits against the Trump Administration on immigration and a number of other issues. Of course he was speaking with NY officials before switching jobs. He was just smart enough not to do it in emails.
Why do you think Hillary Clinton set up a homebrew email server and never used her official government email account?
Rosa (@AquaBreezesRosa) ~ Where is the job posting, the resumes, and the interview notes? Who else applied? How was he chosen? What was the process? All of that can be FOIA.
Maybe the DOJ's "exhaustive" search didn't extend to Colangelo's personal email account.
We already know it didn't.
Erik (@soderstrom) ~ Hillary’s good friend “Ray Cooper,” the current governor of NC, was well known for never using his government email so there would be no paper trail on any of his communications when FOIA requests were made.
Cruadin (@cruadin) ~ I can picture the scene; the No. 3 guy at DOJ resigns for no particular reason and takes a bus to the Big Apple to make his fortune. He wanders into Bragg’s DA office, hat in hand, and timidly asks if there are any job openings. “I’d be willing to start at the bottom, working second string on any misdemeanor cases you’ve got simmering on the back burner,” he said, with suitable humility. It’s totally believable.
Darren Anderson (@Omegadarren) ~ Exactly. If there was no communication how did he even make the transition?
The Hancock (@HancockThe1011) ~ That only makes it more suspicious. How was he hired? So he essentially just resigned at DOJ for no reason at all? That’s an interesting take. Put him under oath and ask him about it @SpeakerJohnson.
Lorenzo (@larrydee1) ~ They’ll never tell the truth. They’ll make you dig for it. They’ll delay it. They’ll make you spend large amounts of money to expose it.
Kory Jaiden (@JaidenKory) ~ I’m going to think about a job I want and then show up there Monday morning without speaking with anybody and see how it goes.
In a different city. With a massive pay cut. Or maybe not a pay cut.
Patriotify (@JoinPatriotify) ~ The Manhattan DA invented a first ever executive-level position so they could bring Colangelo on at a salary similar to his DOJ position.
And the DA released this bullshit press release on December 5, 2022:
http://manhattanda.org/district-attorney-bragg-announces-matthew-colangelo-as-new-senior-counsel/
Patriotify (@JoinPatriotify) ~ The angle that many are missing ... his move almost certainly followed discussions among DOJ officials regarding the fact that they couldn’t possibly bring any election related charge against Trump in a federal court.
Colangelo moved to Manhattan DA office for that reason.
And his move from DOJ to the Manhattan DA Office was blessed beforehand by Merrick Garland.
Erin Brough (@mbrough330) ~ So the DOJ confirmed that Bragg and Coangelo are at least smart enough to NOT use official government email. There's a revelation.
Mike (@syntheticmpathy) ~ We’ll that settles that. They think you’re stupid.
The Department of Justice did an "exhaustive" search and could find any documents linking Colangelo to Bragg. They never communicated, and Garland didn't know anything about it until he was surprised by Colangelo's sudden resignation. It's just another one of the Republicans' many "crazy conspiracy theories" that damages the DOJ's credibility.
The oh so transparent Biden administration.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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