[Jim Noble]

You would think that the President of the United States would merely need to pick up a phone

You would think a lot of things, but one of the goals of the CIA-FBI-Deep State Watergate conspiracy was to create this idea of an "independent" Justice Department, reporting not to the President but to NBC, the Washington Post, and Congressional Democrats (this from the people who made their President's BROTHER AG in the 1960s!).

[odawg]

“...reporting not to the President but to NBC, the Washington Post, and Congressional Democrats...”

Very good point.