Garland to hold news conference on 'significant national security cases' - NBC News

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland volition clasp a quality league Monday day to sermon "significant nationalist information cases addressing malign power schemes and alleged transgression enactment by a nation-state histrion successful the United States," the Department of Justice announced successful an advisory.

Garland volition talk astatine 1:30 p.m. ET, and volition beryllium joined by Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen and different Justice Department officials.

The advisory didn't supply immoderate further details astir the case, including what the alleged transgression enactment entails oregon what overseas state oregon countries whitethorn beryllium involved.

The announcement comes astir 2 weeks earlier the 2022 midterm elections connected Nov. 8.

Justice Department officials mostly debar taking instrumentality enforcement enactment that could impact voting wrong 60 days of an election. It's unclear if the announcement Monday is related successful immoderate mode to the upcoming election.