Personally, I come down on the side for the need for a special counsel.
At the rank-and-file level, the DOJ is stuffed to the gills with weird agenda radicals hired under Obama. I just don’t see how an investigation that relies on the regular lawyers in the US Attorneys’ offices won’t be completely compromised and sabotaged from the start, with daily leaks to the press and to the targets.
On the other hand, picking a Special Counsel who is an establishment hack like Jamie Gorelick or Al Gonzalez or just about every other name that comes to mind would be worse than just having the US Attorneys’ offices do it.
And remember, once threads start getting pulled on in the investigation we will quickly find ourselves bumping up against the intel establishments from the UK, Oz, Italy, Israel, etc. as well as powerful oligarchs who all have their protectors among the US political class. Very dicey territory.
The only way I see the corrupt Deep State being brought to heel and wrongdoers held to account is a very strong, non-establishment special counsel with a carefully-selected FBI team.
Huber was not tasked with investigating anything.
He was tasked with reviewing the situation and advising Sessions if Huber thinks an investigation should be started.
We never heard whether or what Huber ever advised Sessions.
There is no reason to believe Sessions ever authorized Huber to actually commence an investigation because people like Toensing who represents relevant witnesses and Congress members who have participated in closed hearings have all said they are not aware of any witness who was ever interviewed by Huber or any grand jury of his.
It seems it was just a delaying tactic. Look, they were all waiting, Horowitz included, to see if Mueller would succeed in getting Trump removed. So now that Trump is not getting removed, we hear now maybe a report from Horowitz in June. So he’s done very little other than waiting to see how the Mueller thing ended, and is now gearing up to work.