“It’s really not the way that DOJ is supposed to work,” she said of the DOJ’s blanket request for transcripts. “What have they been doing over there?” the congresswoman added.
Excellent question.
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“What have they been doing over there?” (referring to DOJ)
Good question! The sentient would like a response, now.
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The bubbling tension between federal prosecutors and congressional investigators became public record Thursday, when prosecutors disclosed [a letter sent the day prior from the DOJ to the committee].
Doesn’t inspire confidence that this DOJ can keep a secret or deal with sensitive information without making a distracting scene at the worst time.
They’ve had months to do whatever it is they want to do and have their own tools to do it. Nothing stops them from doing their jobs nor from being specific in what they want or need. Sharing is bidirectional.
While the government is well practiced and certainly can send large quantities of secure documents all around town, I would prefer those same people continue their work on the J6 committee.
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Addressing your upper point, Mueller froze everything for two years. Utter silence while Chump and Rs got to scream the whole time.
Addressing your lower point, that Bill Barr and Chump are no longer in power means nothing.
So since you ALWAYS find fault and quibble and fight with me, why don’t you address the point of my post…don’t give up power to DOJ if you are Dems. You got a problem with that?
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The optics of this suck. If you’ve got something so juicy, why wouldn’t you want to share it with the people who can prosecute?
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It’s not a territorial dispute. It’s “we’re in the middle of putting on a two week show for the nation” and you want our evidence now??? (all 1000+ transcripts–that takes serious work). It’s like some asshole demanding copies of your last three years’ lab notes on the day of your dissertation defense.
DoJ will get the committee’s raw material. AFTER the committee is done presenting to the public. If DoJ needs it sooner they can get a fucking subpoena. I presume they still know how to do a fucking subpoena.
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Why does DOJ need the J6 interviews? Why can’t they just rely on the interviews they have conducted on their own? I could see possibly a desire to compare their own interviews with those from J6 to identify discrepancies but if that’s the case, the asks would be targeted.
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Yes, but you also don’t want the DOJ to share the information with a certain wife of a Supreme Court justice before she talks to the commitee or anyone else the J6 committee wants to call.
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Right? Why the rush now, you let a bunch of treasonous govt. overthrowers run loose for 1.5 years…NOW they need it in a hurry?
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I think it’s because they haven’t been doing them. Without the J6 committee evidence, I think they’ve currently got nothing on the ring leaders.
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You understand that if the House changes hands that will occur on January 3rd, not November? If that comes to pass there will be two months for any remaining info to be handed over.
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If DOJ does break the rules in a way like that–great! Gonna be some lawyers there that you can prosecute.
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J6 is adding new witnesses. The rats gota catch up with the current lies they’re telling.
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The DOJ is going to crack down on internal leakers that hurt dems? Haha. Surely you jest.
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I would guess that the Committee would be a little more accommodating if the DOJ had been a little more supportive of the power of Congress to enforce its subpoenas.
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DOJ wants the interviews so they can sandbag all the cases. It’s filled with MAGAT holdovers that shoulda been fired Jan 21. Anyway if DOJ was going to do something they would’ve already interviewed these people like 18 months ago. Screw em.
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No, he didn’t. He couldn’t have because Dems didn’t control either chamber of Congress, so there was nothing to freeze.
LOL You said a thing that is patently untrue, that Dems put their investigations on hold because of Mueller’s investigation, I pointed out how that isn’t true because it absolutely is not. I addressed two points of your post. Why are you making this personal?
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It is.
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I do, but I get the impression that the committee has far more information than we even suspect. Waiting till November to plan that transfer may make it difficult to complete, particularly when there will likely be much happening during the post-election period.
Better to be prepared with a plan to physically transfer all details to the DOJ within two months should that become necessary in November.
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I don’t need a personal, dedicated nitpicker.
I can go elsewhere and get that for free. You say plenty of things that are fairly vague and generalized, assumptions, impressions and I don’t challenge you on any of it…but I can’t get away with a single misstep because I know who is going to jump on me. Seems like someone else should be scrutinizing what is ‘personal’.
I didn’t say Dems put their investigations on hold, I said everything got frozen so Mueller would have precedence. And it remained like that until he ‘completed’.
I asked you to address the larger point and you won’t.
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