Merrick Garland

[AndyinPA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html

Attorney general nominee Merrick Garland said Monday that his first briefing and top priority if confirmed would center on the sprawling investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, as he more broadly vowed to stamp out the rising threat of domestic terrorism.

Testifying at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Garland drew parallels to the domestic terrorism threat the Justice Department faced in confronting the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the prosecution he led of Timothy McVeigh in the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

“We are facing a more dangerous period than we faced in Oklahoma City at that time,” Garland asserted, promising a broad investigation into not just the rioters, but those who aided them.

“We begin with the people on the ground and we work our way up to those who are involved and further involved,” Garland said, adding later, “We also have to have a focus on what is happening all over the country and on where this could spread, and where this came from.”

[Luke]

This was a really emotional moment.