“The folks who would do the “investigating” and prosecuting are openly defying Congressional subpoenas OF THEIR OWN PARTY. If they won’t produce documents they certainly won’t be producing perp walks.”
Yup. Well said.
Nunes is literally the only guy inside the beltway who has stuck his neck way out for President Trump. If the man wants it, give it to him. This Rosenstein/Sessions CYA idea that we need to hide the evidence from him is ridiculous.
This is not the entire story. This is simplistic view of what really is going on.
Horowitz at OIG is investigating criminal wrongdoing in the FBI and DOJ. Huber is obtaining indictments and preparing criminal cases. Sessions is overseeing the two. If they don't get their cases right, the bad guys could easily walk.
Enter Congress, who is holding hearings to investigate Russian interference in the election. They're a political body and can't prosecute.
Any prosecutor working on criminal indictments would not release any documents relating to their case to Congress, unless they were redacted to prevent Congress from knowing the details of the criminal cases. The requested documents were finally delivered, heavily redacted for that reason.
Being in the same political party has nothing to do with whether the documents were turned over to Congress or not. The fact that the documents related to criminal activity, which is not under the purview of Congress, especially in active, on-going cases, could not be trusted in the hands of Congress.
Congress is partisan to begin with. Then there is the problem of them leaking the criminal cases to the NYT and WP. They would destroy the prosecutor's cases overnight.
So don't conflate the OIG investigators and DOJ prosecutors not wanting to give up documents showing the evidence of crimes they are working on to Congress, with that of the Congress and Sessions being in the same party.
Congress is concerned with political conclusions while the OIG and DOJ are concerned with criminal wrongdoing.
They were right in defying the release of those documents. It would have ended any criminal case they were preparing.