Garland says those attacking pro-life centers too ‘clever’ for FBI: ‘They work at night’ -
In heated testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. garland defended his department’s fulsome prosecutions of protesters at abortion clinics and insisted he would deliver the same treatment to those who have firebombed or vandalized Catholic churches and pro-life centers — if the FBI could find them.
Mr. Garland said the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which his department uses to bring prosecutions, applies equally to those that block clinics and pro-life centers. He acknowledged his department has made many more cases against those protesting abortion clinics but said it’s not intentional.
These people who are doing this are clever, are doing this in secret, and I am convinced the FBI is trying to find them with urgency,” he said. He pointed to Mark Houck, a pro-life activist whom the Justice Department prosecuted for two violations of the FACE Act. When the charges were brought last year, Mr. Houck offered to turn himself in to authorities, GOP senators said. Instead, the FBI made a high-profile morning raid, swarming his home with agents armed with long guns and ballistic shields.
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