Attorney General Merrick Garland holds a news conference Wednesday, June 15, 2022 in Buffalo, New York (US Network via AP, Pool)
Zachary StieberThe Epoch TimesThe U.S. Department of Justice is withholding records related to high-profile investigations, including the probe into President Joe Biden’s son, according to a new lawsuit.Protect the Public’s Trust, a watchdog group, is seeking records seeking ethics waivers and determinations on allowing potentially conflicted employees to work on cases but has been stymied.The group submitted a Freedom of Information Act records request June 1, 2021, but didn’t receive a response for more than a year, according to the suit.After inquiring about the status of the request June 10, the watchdog received an acknowledgment that had been sent to the wrong email address. But the records still haven’t been sent, nor have key determinations about which
