“If Rudy took the approach you suggest, he would get the same criticism that Sessions gets here. It would appear as if he was content to sit back and watch events take place.”
Neither Rudy nor Sessions should be trying to “placate this board”. There is a difference between not doing anything, looking to others like you’re not doing anything (whether or not you are) and just looking like you are doing something. Rudy is attempting to “look like he’s doing something”, but I do not believe that what he looks like he’s doing - publicly bragging to the other team, is materially doing something, or just bragging to be heard.
Sessions on the matter of doing something, or not doing something is whole ‘nother topic. We all are debating that. We all think he should be “taking” more bodies, yet at the same time we do not have all the body of knowledge of everything that he has, and like it or not I think one thing Sessions is trying to at least make the appearance (unlike Holder) is he is working “for the law” more so than for Trump alone. I may disagree with him at points on that, but I think it is part of his motivation. He always seemed like a really straight shooter on the law.
Agree with your Sessions comments.
Not violently disagreeing with you on Rudy, but (again not speaking with any authority on legal knowledge) I think as part of Trumps legal team, he does not have the same obligations as Sessions might. It would seem to me he is there to serve Trumps best interest, not the law (so long as no laws are broken in the process). I certainly hope that the tactics he chooses are successful, time will tell. I for one, like many others like to see the team aggressively fighting back, as it takes a good smack down to put the deep state/libs in their place.
Being a legalistic institutionalist - which at the very best is what Sessions is - is not the same thing as following rule of law.
He wanted Rosenstein, replete with multiple conflicts. In what universe is that following rule - letter and spirit - of law?
If he is playing some sort of 3D Chess game, then it is at the expense of the rule of law!