That’s not good, given the reticence we’ve seen in other aspects of the DOJ to actually pursue any criminal charges.
Via Daily Caller:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not appoint a second special counsel to investigate the FBI’s handling of the Russia investigation, opting instead to use a U.S. attorney from Utah to oversee an internal review of the matter, he told Congress Thursday.
The move comes a day after the Justice Department’s office of the inspector general opened an investigation into the DOJ and FBI’s use of the infamous Steele dossier to obtain surveillance warrants against President Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser Carter Page.
The Republican chairmen of House and Senate committees — Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley — recently pressed Sessions to go beyond an inspector general’s investigation, arguing the DOJ watchdog does not have the ability to investigate outside the walls of DOJ and FBI.