Sessions wouldn’t give the Fast and Furious docs to Chaffetz no doubt for a very good reason. Ongoing investigations don’t need leakers, for instance. He basically didn’t like Trump.
Here’s a statement Chaffetz made to Sheryl Atkisson when he quit his House position in the summer of 2018:
Chaffetz indicated he was disappointed with the Trump administration. He’d hoped a Republican administration would make completing the Oversight Committee’s ongoing investigations easier but found he was receiving the same pushback, red tape, and stonewalling he’d experienced from the Obama administration.
The outgoing Congressman noted a particular frustration with the Justice Department.
“The reality is, sadly, I don’t see much difference between the Trump administration and the Obama administration. I thought there would be this, these floodgates would open up with all the documents we wanted from the Department of State, the Department of Justice, the Pentagon. In many ways, it’s almost worse because we’re getting nothing, and that’s terribly frustrating and with all due respect, the Attorney General has not changed at all. I find him to be worse than what I saw with Loretta Lynch in terms of releasing documents and making things available. I just, that’s my experience, and that’s not what I expected.”
“I mean, we have been in court trying to pry those documents out of the Department of Justice and still to this day, they will not give us those documents. And at the State Department, nothing. Stone cold silence.”
Very good reason indeed. Evidence before a grandy jury. Too many leaks.
-SB