'In essence, [Attorney General Garland] said that the buck doesn’t stop with him, because he has refused for half a year to let the buck reach him in the first place. It was an egregious exercise of defiance masked as pusillanimity,' QuinHillyer writes.
After six months of repeated questions from members of Congress about the astonishingly reckless and extravagant use of force to arrest a cooperative pro-life activist in front of his seven children, Garland, in a Senate hearing, provided a cowardly nonanswer about the incident. In essence, he said that the buck doesn’t stop with him, because he has refused for half a year to let the buck reach him in the first place.
Yet as abusive as the entire prosecutorial attempt was, that wasn’t as much at issue as the arrest itself. Heavily armed agents showed up en masse at Houck’s house shortly after dawn and arrested him in front of his children, some of them quite young. Houck’s wife said there were 20 or more agents, guns drawn like a SWAT team, rude and extremely frightening, with five of them aiming guns at Houck’s head. Photographs show at least several agents with significant-sized weapons.
Dozens of congressmen have written letters to Garland personally to ask, therefore, why it was necessary to send an armed dawn raid to arrest someone, who was already entirely cooperative, in front of his children. Repeatedly asked at the March 1 hearing, Garland deferred. It was as if, despite those congressional inquiries and despite abundant editorial ink questioning the heavy use of force, he thought it not even worth his time to review the incident.
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