Ryan J. Reilly is a justice reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland pushed back on Republican attacks on the justice system during a grueling House committee hearing on Tuesday days after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of scheming to interfere in the 2016 election by hiding hush money payments to a porn star.
Garland said that 'individual career agents and prosecutors have been singled out just for doing their jobs,' and that there had been 'baseless and extremely dangerous falsehoods' being spread about the FBI’s law enforcement operations as well as 'heinous threats of violence being directed at the Justice Department’s career public servants.
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