There are others who speculate that Sessions is merely (cleverly) playing possum, that a uranium one special prosecutor appointment could be in the offing, once the damning OIG’s report comes out in the spring. We’ll see.
Yes there are, but many if not all of those folks are the same ones that were previously claiming that Mueller and Trump had a secret deal, that Trump would lie to the press and his supporters every day about what was going on, while Mueller secretly built a case against Hillary, not Trump. Prosecutions of four Trump associates, and expose’s on the bias of Mueller’s team have mostly exposed that as fantasy, although some still believe it, but are rare to admit it here at least.
The report the came out yesterday trying to prop up Sessions as someone interested in actually investigating Uranium One, was solely based on a single report from an MSNBC reporter known for planting false stories before. It also contradicts Sessions own recusals, stated under oath multiple times, for anything related to the Clintons or their foundations.
Despite Sessions’ recusals on anything Clinton related, he did involve himself enough while testifying to his own oversight committee in Congress, to tell them he wasn’t planning on honoring their request for a special prosecutor to investigate the FBI’s previous mishandling of Uranium One. This is obviously hypocritical, as it took basically nothing for a special prosecutor to be assigned to investigating Trump, when a few Democrats called for it.
Also, special counsels are supposed to be unbiased, and Mueller is already operating under a conflict of interest waiver. An investigation of the DOJ is the perfect application for a special counsel, so that the DOJ isn’t being trusted to investigate itself. However, Sessions seems more interested in protecting the DOJ, than seeing justice served. When Trump criticized the DOJ the other day, Sessions came right out and said there could be “innocent explanations.”
As you said, we’ll see. Hopefully the DOJ will actually admit it’s mistakes in investigating Hillary and Obama, and finally make some arrests, but based on what we know so far, I’d say it’s highly unlikely the current staff will do that on their own.