Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte casually lets it drop yesterday during a radio interview that a grand jury has been empaneled.
Some might see this as a 'casual slip' by Goodlatte, an 'oops I wasn't really supposed to reveal that yet!' moment, but I don't think so. I don't think that was a casual slip any more than Sessions made a casual slip revealing he'd appointed a special prosecutor months ago. Nothing leaks for months and then these guys only tell you when it's too late for it to matter. That is, even IF the DNC/Destroy Trump Media managed to find out who this secret prosecutor is that Sessions has had investigating, who has now empaneled a grand jury? It's too late.
The work's all been done. The final touches are being applied. They can tell you NOW because it's too late for the Swamp and the targets of the investigations to do anything to stop what's coming. A more than year-long war for the control and the soul of the DOJ and it's ancilliary agencies has been underway. Secrecy was a must.
People who demanded one side fight the war by making all it's moves & it's evidence PUBLIC have no idea what they were asking. For more than a year people have loudly demanded that Sessions & those working with him to fix the deep corruption problems inside the DOJ deliberately handicap themselves by providing regular updates on their strategic moves, their progress, what they are doing.
Well screw those people. You don't win a war by constantly updating your enemy on where your forces are, what they are doing, and what your current objectives are comprised of.
Sessions & Trump are going to win this war because they DIDN'T fight it the way many insisted they should: out in the open, for the entire world to see for the past year.
Tell me honestly: who thinks you win a war for the control & the soul of the DOJ against THESE PEOPLE when you are telegraphing every move you are making by calling press conferences & blabbing to the media about everything you're doing?
Sessions appointed a prosecutor in secret to investigate and PROSECUTE the DOJ corruption that IG Horowitz has uncovered and that prosecutor has a grand jury empaneled. He very likely appointed this prosecutor last JULY. And it didn't LEAK. He and Goodlatte are only letting it out now because it's too late for the targets to do anything of consequence to damage the case that's been built.
Mueller's team over there has been leaking like a sieve, keeping all eyes on it since last May. Nobody had any idea what Horowitz was doing or what he'd found until December. Because nothing leaked and nobody knew what was coming. Sessions is playing for keeps and this is deadly serious. Anything you show Congress, especially to Dems on these oversight committees, is going to be instantly leaked to the press. And the targets of the investigations.
That's why Mueller kept everybody transfixed for a year while Horowitz fixed himself for silent running and dove deep from January 2017 all the way to December 2017 and only came up to the surface after he had the evidence. They didn't show Congress JACK during that year.
Many have this idea the IG report will drop,
THEN referrals for prosecution will be made,
THEN a prosecutor will be appointed
THEN a grand jury will be seated & start hearing the evidence… a process that will take months.
In fact this process likely started last July when Sessions appointed a prosecutor in secret. It all starts happening once the IG report drops.
All of the above was from StealthJeff on twitter: https:// twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/979045082228842496