What storm?
Cool.
Comments by Blade at CTH for a little perspective.
https:// theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/22/giddy-up-doj-admits-they-have-a-grand-jury-empaneled-in-fbi-and-doj-investigation/#comments
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"Are there still those who doubt?"
I’m afraid there will still be quite a few…
A good example is the IRS Lois Lerner issue. People frantically calling for arrests and indictments and whatever. Such demands expose folks who haven’t taken the time to learn how our "system" works, e.g., Why has Sessions let her off the hook?! The whole point is that you have no way of knowing this. You have no way of ever knowing whether they impaneled a grand jury and whether they refused to hand down indictments or not. You don’t necessarily have to have served on one or testified in front of a grand jury to be aware of the nature of how this works. They are secret by definition, and even the target may not know what happened. So it is possible they already tried and failed, or yes, never tried at all.
Many keep tossing out "arrest" as well, as if this is similar to how a local cop arrests a citizen for DUI or something. But an arrest for any charge (except maybe terrorism) starts a clock for which that person gets held, before they get charged by a district attorney’s office, and if the charge is a felony it reverts to the fifth amendment process of a grand jury in most states, or probably a judge’s preliminary hearing in a few others. Almost everything we are looking at is a federal felony, and there is no doubt that those require a federal grand jury, and that means a federal prosecutor and yes, local citizens of that jurisdiction serving as members.
And that is the rub. Sessions first needed to get his prosecutors in place before even considering a felony action on anyone (imagine how a Preet Bharara might foul it up and fail to secure an indictment). Then, once you have reliable prosecutors in place you have to consider the constituents of a district who will be drawed upon to make up the grand jury. (Washington D.C. vs NOVA vs Southern NY vs all the others, and guess where most of them will occur). There is a very steep mountain to climb just to secure an indictment because that political demographic means a huge double standard serving to protect the left and help crucify the right. And then once you get past all that somehow, you ultimately wind up in a jury trial ('prosecution') where the leftist perp gets yet another chance at vindication from O.J. jury nullification after all that work. It is quite a challenge to bring any anonymous leftist to justice, let alone big name political leftists who everyone knows by name.
But by all means, folks will continue to disregard the actual battlefield conditions that Attorney General Sessions or anyone else actually faces and skip right over the facts and hand wring and scapegoat the man. Talk about a thankless job which is probably the hardest job there is anywhere in government (if you are not a leftist of course, for them it is simple).