To further elaborate on what the cooperation means is that the OIG (Horowitz) can only recommend prosecutions. Huber can conduct grand juries to investigate any possible crimes that come from the OIG investigation (or any leads from what Huber finds as a result of his work). Many, including me, have hopes that Huber will yield much fruit in prosecuting the derps.
Many have been anxious for something to unfold from Huber. It is critical that this must be done right as the push back from the Ds/MSM will be huge. I am hopeful that Trumps EO of late 2017 that involves military tribunals is an integral part of this process.
One very big troubling thing is that it has been noted by some that Huber has not interviewed key people that you think would have been interviewed. A case in point is Campbell (the FBI informant and eye witness to Uranium One) who is Victoria Toensing’s client has not been interviewed by Huber. This is from a very recent interview with her husband Joe Degenova.
Lastly, I am not sure the benefit of the house hearings unless the OIG report comes out and Huber releases indictments. Then the testimony would be great. If not, Huber will not divulge anything he has this in his testimony as that is an ongoing investigation.
There is a simple explanation to all this: The GOP does not/will support POTUS taking on the kenyan and Hillary for their criminal assault against him. They never cared Obama’s IRS assaulted us and they don’t care Trump’s constitional rights were violated.
Without his party on his flanks no President could engage in such a historic battle. Even worse, the GOP want him hobbled so his power is limited and they can set the beltway agenda from Congress. We get endless delays and obfuscations from both the GOP and to some extent POTUS. If it became known how little of the executive branch he actually controls it would seriously damage his reelection bid. So we get happy talk about POTUS working together with the Congressional GOP to advance a MAGA agenda. Not happening, unfortunately. “I voted for my wife” Romney and rest of the GOPe have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt they prefer progressive Democrats to the MAGA agenda and the GOP base voters.
“If it became known how little of the executive branch he actually controls...”
If people really knew what was going on with their corrupt stasi state vis a vis Trump, they would have already descended upon the swamp.
The Trump administration can take on the derps by itself. Jonathan Turley wrote an article shortly after Huber was announced by Sessions (I think around March) that it more more effective than a Special Counsel.
Elements of successful prosecution are getting all the ducks in order which takes time - we are all inpatient, cleaning out the DOJ (or at least the part that walls off the Huber investigation), use of military tribunals to try and prosecute (eliminates the crooked judges of DC).
Sessions appointed Huber. There are many frustrated with Sessions. My take is that he is an honorable man who was in over his head. He got played by Franken at his confirmation hearing and Yates who gave him erroneous advice in which he based his recusal on. Sessions is proud and his integrity is important to him. I believe that was used effectively against Sessions.
Another aspect of this is Trump. He is very shrewd and is used to long term planning (as any competent CEO is - of which he was a very successful CEO). I am hopeful that there is good strategy for not releasing the documents. It should be part of the process to prime the public. Perhaps the fact that his EO on military tribunals comes into effect in January 2019 is an important part of the timing. Counting on the House to do effective investigations is a fool’s errand (see Benghazi - although it did uncover Hillary’s e-mails, and did any House investigation in Trump’s 1st term yield benefits).