How can President Joe Biden, USAG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray stay silent about their real participation in the raid on Trump's home in Florida

 

Amid feverish speculation surrounding the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, many Republican leaders have called on Biden's Justice Department to release details about the "unprecedented"  ---  as yet unjustified  --- and possibly unconstitutional or otherwise unlawful raid on former President Donald Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago

To date, the Justice Department and FBI are stonewalling the media, governmental critics, and the American people with a now too-familiar refrain in controversial cases  >>>  "NO COMMENT...  ONGOING INVESTIGATION....."  ---  The White House Press Secretary has also chimed in with her version of the same tune on behalf of President Biden

Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray have remained silent, even as some of Trump's critics have demanded some form of justification, explanation or clarification

On the part the Justice Department, this Trump Raid is being portrayed as a jst another matter of longstanding policy and staying true to norms while navigating the currents of a politically sensitive investigation  ---  as if breaching the security and sanctity of the home of a former president were not a violation of longstanding policy, and staying true to bedrock norms of government protocol and even sound constitutional behavior

Thus far, President Trump, and his allies and surrogates have instead seized on the Justice Department's silence  ---  and run with it to their great advantage

According to a piece in the "Insider" on-line:

"....'One of the cardinal rules at the Justice Department is that it does not discuss ongoing investigations, and certainly not with Congress, because criminal investigations should be free from political interference. And that's what Congress is all about,' said Ronald Weich, dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law, who served as the Justice Department's chief liaison to Congress during the Obama administration....  'In high profile matters...  there are sometimes exceptions, and the department will sometimes arrange briefings for members of Congress to explain, in general terms, the nature of an investigation. But it's a very delicate dance to decide how much can be provided, and the [Justice D]epartment will be institutionally reluctant to provide information about the ongoing investigation.'..."  (See  "Donald Trump's endless attacks on the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid is pressuring Merrick Garland to break the DOJ's 'no comment' norm until there's an indictment — if that ever happens" by C. Ryan Barber, 8/11/2022, Insider/ Home/ Politics       [https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attacks-mar-lago-raid-search-garland-justice-no-comment-2022-8]).

On the other hand the Insider piece by Mr. Barber noted that: "[In a prepared statement] Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican critic of Trump, said the 'unprecedented circumstances' of the Mar-a-Lago search 'require unprecedented transparency and accountability from our government institutions....   The American people deserve to know all the facts as soon as possible, and I call on the Biden administration to release — at a minimum — the documents authorizing the FBI search...."

In the past, Attorney General Garland has often stressed in public statements that the Justice Department speaks within the boundaries of court filings. Customarily in a criminal case, a search warrant and inventory of items seized would only become public after the Justice Department files charges in court —  however, that event that may never come to pass with respect to the Trump Raid and the so-called FBI search of Trump's home for who knows what.