Attorney General Merrick Garland will use an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend the Justice Department against “repeated attacks” from Republican lawmakers who have sought to undermine investigations and put federal employees in harm’s way, federal officials said.
Garland’s scheduled testimony before the House Judiciary Committee comes as GOP House leaders are threatening to hold him in contempt in their efforts to gain access to audio recordings from special counsel Robert K. Hur’s investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified materials.
GOP leaders called Hur’s investigation politically compromised and railed against federal charges filed by another special counsel, Jack Smith, alleging that former president Donald Trump improperly kept classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021 and failed to heed requests from investigators to return them. A Justice Department spokeswoman said Garland intends to push back against “false narratives regarding the Department’s employees and their work.
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