“The IG has no power to do that. He can only refer the matter to a U.S. Attorney’s office — which would then have the power to convene a grand jury.”
There needs to be specific legislation to make sure, going forward that the DOJ cannot do a cover up under the guise of “investigating itself.” There has to be the power to independently investigate the DOJ and that power has to be vested in some entity other than the DOJ itself. Otherwise, we invite continuation of the crap and sedition that’s going on as this is being written.
It already exists; it's in the Constitution in fact. It's called Congressional oversight and the DOJ and FBI have been thwarting their efforts regularly. Sessions, Rosenweasel and Wray have been dragging their feet, insisting that the ongoing investigation may be compromised and national security might be compromised or simply ignoring them. When the largely unredacted House report was re-issued sans most of the redactions we have seen they are simply hiding embarrassing and possible criminality with many of these redactions.
Rosenweasel and Wray deserve to be charged for contempt of Congress and Sessions deserves to be fired for incompetence at the very least.