Attorney General Merrick Garland was caught flat-footed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing when Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) held up two large photographs, one showing Jan. 6 demonstrators breaking into the Capitol and the other of demonstrators assaulting the Department of Interior on Oct. 14. When the Florida congressman asked Garland if the October event was an example of “domestic terrorism,” the attorney general demurred in his response. “I’m not going to be able to reference that specific incident since this is the first I know of it,” he said. Steube was referring to Oct. 14 protesters from an extreme left-wing environmental activist group, People vs. Fossil Fuels, which had organized five days of protests at the Interior headquarters building in Washington. They were seeking to force President Joe Biden to stop approving fossil fuel energy projects. As happened with the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol, the October protestors forced …
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