<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland assured U.S. Senators, under oath, that leaks about investigations regarding presidents&#8217; handling of sensitive documents while out of office are not &#8220;directed&#8221; by the Justice Department.</p>
<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-senators-confront-garland-on-protesters-outside-homes-of-supreme-court-justices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressed Garland</a>, who was appearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, about various media reports about the inquiries into former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve read the leaks. They are inappropriate,&#8221; Garland testified. &#8220;We also don&#8217;t know where they come from.&#8221;</p>
<p>During his line of questioning, Cruz expressed the view that the leaks have been politically motivated, benefiting one side — Biden and the Democrats — while hurting Trump. But, the senator added, the Justice Department&#8217;s &#8220;intention&#8221; to indict Trump became &#8220;infinitely harder&#8221; when classified documents were discovered at Biden&#8217;s multiple residences.</p>
<p>After noting how &#8220;miraculously&#8221; there was no immediate leak about classified documents being found at Biden&#8217;s office at a D.C. think tank right before the 2022 midterm elections, Cruz asked the attorney general if there appears to be a double standard considering the torrent of <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/1091431136/justice-department-investigating-trumps-possible-mishandling-of-government-secre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaks about the Trump inquiry</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Leaks under all circumstances are inappropriate and they are not directed by anyone in the Justice Department,&#8221; Garland said.</p>
<p>Before his time expired, Cruz also said it was &#8220;striking&#8221; to him that leaks about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grassley-tells-garland-of-12-sources-with-potential-dirt-on-hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal investigation into Hunter Biden</a> seem to be more focused on possible tax crimes and a false statement related to a gun purchase that could be complicated by his <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/hunter-biden-investigation-federal-prosecutors-weighing-charges/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">history of drug use</a> rather than the &#8220;very real evidence&#8221; of corruption involving the younger Biden&#8217;s father, President Biden.</p>
<p>Garland has appointed separate special counsels to investigate Trump&#8217;s and Joe Biden&#8217;s handling of government documents, a move he attributes to their ambitions to seek re-election in 2024.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/03/01/fbi-dispute-trump-mar-a-lago-raid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post reported</a> on Wednesday that prosecutors prevailed over FBI agents who resisted the plan to raid Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last summer in the search for classified documents.</p>
<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sought to have Garland answer to the new reporting, but the attorney general insisted he was not at liberty to discuss the investigation. However, Garland said generally there is often a &#8220;robust discussion&#8221; between prosecutors and investigators. Garland also said he &#8220;approved the decision to seek a search warrant after probable cause was found.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hawley argued that the reporting indicated that the FBI lacks confidence in Garland&#8217;s leadership.</p>
<p>&#8220;FBI field agents did not want to conduct the raid and they were overruled by [the Justice Department],&#8221; Hawley said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem to me, attorney general, that the FBI has a lot of confidence in you because what they&#8217;re doing, clearly, is trying to distance themselves from your decisions.&#8221;</p>

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