Letters to the Editor
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Well, of course they won't Comment!!
"Under direction from the White House General Counsel while the Department of Justice and the CIA Inspector General conduct a preliminary inquiry, we have not publicly commented on facts relating to this issue"
And they won't. When you look at this matter of the DOJ internal investigation, you have to look at it in the context of what Senator Sheldon Whitehouse explained on the floor of the Senate week before last.
In what was a woefully under-reported story, Senator Whitehouse explained how the Office of Legal Counsel has carefully constructed a framework of legal opinion that justifies Anything that the President does as Legal, just because the President says so under his Article II powers. He is not bound under any mere Congressionally-passed laws, nor previous Executive Orders, because he can just issue new ones or ignore ones already in place.
So with that OLC base, then any internal DOJ investigation is bound to conclude that nothing illegal occurred in the destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice, because the President no doubt approved of it, no doubt by virtue of an Executive Order that DOJ is not obligated to reveal.
Poof! No Checks and Balances, No Illegalities, No Problem!
Don't expect this investigation to result in anything. Independent Counsel is needed