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A Letter to Merrick Garland
The Wall Street Journal|January 15, 2025
Dear Mr. Attorney General, Your time in office won't run out a moment too soon. You will be remembered as a tool in the Democratic Party's strategy of misusing the Justice Department to visit injustice on innocent people with differing political views. I am a victim of your dysfunctional leadership, but unlike many of your targets, I have survived unscathed.
- Bob Livingston
A Letter to Merrick Garland

I am 81. At the outset of my career, I enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served on active duty for two years, followed by an additional four in the reserves. When I returned to civilian life, I completed my undergraduate studies and law school. After some years of private practice, I successfully served as a prosecutor in three separate government offices.

I was then elected to Congress, where I served for 22 years. Shortly thereafter I created and ran the Livingston Group, a lobbying firm. For 25 years we represented defense, education, energy, health and corporate clients of all kinds. We also represented international clients, private and sovereign, but only if we were assured their interests coincided with those of the U.S.

In 2022 two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents came to my home in New Orleans and questioned me about incidents involving our representation of an international client in 2018. Having nothing to hide, I spoke with them for 2 1/2 hours.

I told them everything I could remember. I told them the truth. They quibbled with me about facts and reminded me of incidents that for whatever reason I couldn't recall. I have been interviewed by FBI agents in the past about varying matters under investigation, never about me, and I thought this no different. I was given to believe that they were looking only for background information.

この記事は The Wall Street Journal の January 15, 2025 版に掲載されています。

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この記事は The Wall Street Journal の January 15, 2025 版に掲載されています。

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