What Was Garland Actually Doing?

This one is far too easy to interpret.

Attorney General Merrick Garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve the application for a warrant to search former President Donald Trump’s Florida home  --WSJ quoted at Red State

The Perfidious Garland was negotiating his quid-pro-quo with Hillary and Obama (etc.) over seizing the documents Trump needed in his lawsuit against her over Russiagate.

We know what they got.  Now the question: what did the Perfidious Garland get?