I have no doubt he is featuring in the DoJ investigations of 1/6 but they will not say that, nor should they just to appease the frustrations of the public. That’s where Comey went badly wrong, he had no need to say anything until he was sure there was new evidence against HRC but he gave in to fear of leaks and public pressure & announc…
I have no doubt he is featuring in the DoJ investigations of 1/6 but they will not say that, nor should they just to appease the frustrations of the public. That’s where Comey went badly wrong, he had no need to say anything until he was sure there was new evidence against HRC but he gave in to fear of leaks and public pressure & announced the ‘re-opening’ of an investigation 10 days before an election. There are good reasons why DoJ should not discuss these things in public. But the evidence of a criminal offence will have to be well beyond a reasonable doubt for DoJ to indict Trump and again for good reason. The country is a tinder box, he must be held to account if the evidence is there but they can’t just take a flyer and hope they get a sympathetic jury.
Comey really, really screwed that whole thing up by opening his yap, whether that was well intended or not. And I get it about why DOJ may seem idle due to the relative silence. Hoping they just learned a lesson from Comey and are actually getting their ducks very quietly in a row. I'm with Sandy in that all I want, and have wanted, is a 1st rate legitimate investigation and let the chips fall where they may. But if they don't fall at all, I'm really going to be beyond pissed off!!
Of course they don't say anything about investigations, but, as legal pundits like Preet Bharara, Joyce Vance and Dan Goldman have pointed out, no one close to Trump is being subpoenaed. That would get out if it were happening.
I'm not looking for an indictment, just an investigation.
The Jan 6 committee is getting evidence from Jared, Ivanka, Miller, plus what it has already got from Meadows & countless others who we don’t know about. It awaits the release of e mails from John Eastman. If I was DoJ investigator, I’d want every scrap of evidence available in the public domain before I decided who to subpoena & what questions I want to ask about it. They are not going to operate on our time scale & whatever happens in the mid-terms even if the House flips, it will not affect the DoJ. That remains ongoing until a new president is in office.
I have no doubt he is featuring in the DoJ investigations of 1/6 but they will not say that, nor should they just to appease the frustrations of the public. That’s where Comey went badly wrong, he had no need to say anything until he was sure there was new evidence against HRC but he gave in to fear of leaks and public pressure & announced the ‘re-opening’ of an investigation 10 days before an election. There are good reasons why DoJ should not discuss these things in public. But the evidence of a criminal offence will have to be well beyond a reasonable doubt for DoJ to indict Trump and again for good reason. The country is a tinder box, he must be held to account if the evidence is there but they can’t just take a flyer and hope they get a sympathetic jury.
Comey really, really screwed that whole thing up by opening his yap, whether that was well intended or not. And I get it about why DOJ may seem idle due to the relative silence. Hoping they just learned a lesson from Comey and are actually getting their ducks very quietly in a row. I'm with Sandy in that all I want, and have wanted, is a 1st rate legitimate investigation and let the chips fall where they may. But if they don't fall at all, I'm really going to be beyond pissed off!!
Of course they don't say anything about investigations, but, as legal pundits like Preet Bharara, Joyce Vance and Dan Goldman have pointed out, no one close to Trump is being subpoenaed. That would get out if it were happening.
I'm not looking for an indictment, just an investigation.
The Jan 6 committee is getting evidence from Jared, Ivanka, Miller, plus what it has already got from Meadows & countless others who we don’t know about. It awaits the release of e mails from John Eastman. If I was DoJ investigator, I’d want every scrap of evidence available in the public domain before I decided who to subpoena & what questions I want to ask about it. They are not going to operate on our time scale & whatever happens in the mid-terms even if the House flips, it will not affect the DoJ. That remains ongoing until a new president is in office.