We know they aren't saying anything. That's not the same thing.
I would be very highly skeptical that they haven't been approached. They surely have been. And I'd be willing to bet that their silence is a result of the fact that they've already been indicted, told they've been indicted, and told that they'd better not open their mouths for anyone but the USA handling their case if they want to have any hope of cutting a deal.
On November 8th alone, the day 2 of 3 FusionGPS employees took the fifth, and Simpson also refused to answer most of the questions put to him, DOJ issued 31 sealed indictments. Shortly thereafter, DiFi started leaking the parts of his testimony Simpson was willing to give. Why? Because the Dems' staff had lost contact with the conspiracy, and realized any chance of coordinating at least some of their stories would have to come from outside their little "secret society."
Keep this in mind, too: some of these people have failed to appear for interviews they're not permitted to decline, either with Judiciary or HPSCI. So they're not just shutting out reporters. That sounds like the kind of silence you get when your lawyer tells someone whose subpoenaed you that it would be a waste of time all around, because you'll be invoking your Fifth Amendment privilege for the whole interview.
Actually reporters WILL try to interview people, even though they know full well nothing will come of it. They do it all the time because they can the aborted interview and ‘show’ that the person is a crook (since he won’t talk). They find the people at their home or at work, and then they run the aborted interview.
60 minutes is FAMOUS for doing that. But not here, never here. Sorry, but Sundance has a point.
>> I would be very highly skeptical that they haven’t been approached. They surely have been.<<
You might be right about that. Still, compare the present situation with what we’d be observing if the table was reversed and the media was faced with a bunch of conservatives who’d been advised by their lawyers to clam up.
You’d have reporters camped on their lawns, perp walks every time they left the house, constant reminders by talking heads that so and so refuses to respond to reporters’ questions, etc. Also, reporters would be seeking out their lawyers and badgering them with accusatory questions.
We’ve really had none of that. Instead, we’ve had precious little evidence of any interest whatsoever from the mainstream press, at least that I have seen. Have you seen otherwise?