Ok, I’ve been reading the back and forth on Sessions and Nunez all day. Here’s what I think. The more friction there “seems” to be between the House/Senate committees and the DOJ the more people’s ears prick up. The liberal media salivates. Twitter world goes nuts. After a week or more of eyes-on the situation the DOJ “caves’, the committees get the info they want. That information makes its way into the national consciousness.
This is all orchestrated brilliantly. If there were no fireworks everyone would still be blue pilled. All of this back and forth is red pilling at its finest.
It’s still building. The DS needs to defend Mueller more before the big reveal of his unredacted mandate.
The dynamic is there, but I think the motives are institutional protection (some justified, some not) rather than a desire to gin up public interest.
There is a good reason that the branches of government compete, check and balance, and are not totally transparent with each other.
Law enforcement has many secrets. So does foreign affairs. The justification for keeping substantial chunks secret is pretty good. The world runs partly on subterfuge, brinkmanship, and secrets. With investigations, assume the FBI was investigating a congressman as a foreign agent. Should Congress have a right to see that? maybe better asked, under what circumstances and when (and who) should see that? Of if a congressman is known to be a conduit for information back to a political party that uses hit-teams to take out political opponents. How much do you share with Schiff? Feinstein?
Think of the rules of the game as though your enemies will use the same rules and have the same powers you propose to give to "your guys."
I've pondered long and hard about how to expose and dispose of the DS players in FBI and DOJ, as well as the plain old opportunist skunks. One hopes that a few strategically places levers, like Horowitz, Huber, and likely a few others in other agencies, will shine daylight on some of the corruption. I see Grassley, Nunes, Goodlatte, and a few others are pushing from the Congressional side too - but I give each branch a bit of slack for institutional protection.
I certainly hope your assessment is correct.
This is what I’m hoping as well.
I wouldn’t mind at all if you are right. :-)