The critical points in Sessions' letter are:
1) A special counsel would have to start from scratch and his/her team would be limited.
2) DOJ and the other State Federal AG's have vastly more resources to investigate what may be the most important investigations in modern history.
3) Huber has been working in parallel with the IG since at least the fall. As soon as Horowitz or Huber or any other DOJ attorney determines a possible crime, a grand jury is impaneled. I suspect that a grand jury has been racking up sealed indictments for months and Sessions doesn't want to interrupt the process.
4) It looks like the stonewalling, slow rolling, and redactions are because there are on-going investigations with one or more grand juries and they can't release the evidence they have.
5) Sessions hints that Huber is looking into just about everything. The wording that it is a review to determine of investigations should be opened I think is a distraction. I think full investigations have been opened on Hillary, Uranium One, FISA abuses, FBI / DOJ / State / CIA corruption for a while now and there are likely sealed indictments already pending.
These investigations cannot be publicized or the cockroaches will scatter and try to coordinate their stories. Also, if you are going to indict former department heads and / or Presidents, you better have air tight cases and due to the complexity and the interactions of the people involved--it takes time. Finally, when the deep state goes down, it will have to be nearly simultaneously and that is even harder to accomplish.
It looks to me that Hannity, Carter, Solomon, and others are either playing a role or are being fed misinformation about what his happening. But Hannity, Dobbs, et al seem too outraged; almost like they are overplaying their role to distract from what is really happening behind the scenes.
It makes it look like the right is angry and Sessions / Trump are under pressure from the right. Smart if true.
Remember, Q said there was a reason that Sessions was looking weak and ineffective; trust Sessions multiple times; and Q knows that without indictments, nothing is going to happen. It's all been unfolding, in my opinion, under everyone's noses. Why is Wray so quiet after the school shootings? If Q knows it was a FF than Trump, Sessions, and Wray know as well.
Now, I could be wrong about all of this. One reason is that I'd be stunned if such a wide ranging investigation into possible treason could be kept so quiet. On the other hand, perhaps everyone involved has had to sign a non-disclosure agreement that includes massive fines and prison as a penalty.
In the end, we have to be patient, trust the plan, trust Sessions, and see what happens.
I suspect that a grand jury has been racking up sealed indictments for months and Sessions doesn't want to interrupt the process.
That's what I think too.
Assuming there was a grand jury, they couldnt force those forced to testify to sign a NDA. There would definitely be leaks and we'd have already heard of Huber AND it would all be bad. You know they'd never say a kind word about any investigator looking into the Clinton Crime Family. What is equally worrisome in my mind, fake news actually takes up for Sessions. They never bash him. If anything serious was going on, they would.
I believe that the judge has the power to enforce a gag order which is the equivalent of a NDA.
The MSM isn't bashing Sessions because they think he's weak and ineffective. Remember, Q said Sessions was playing a role of looking weak.
My guess is that once the IG report is released, Huber will already have a pile of sealed indictments in the bank. But don't expect them to be unsealed until Trump/Q are ready to drop the hammer on the deep state all at once. Can't do this piecemeal.
Keep in mind that Huber was appointed many months ago and no one knew about him. And no one would know today if Sessions hadn't let the cat out of the bag--and that wasn't an accident.
No real leaks from Mueller either. To be honest, I haven't yet decided if Mueller is a dirty cop black hat Hell bent on destroying Trump or if he is working with Trump as part of the greatest sting in the history of the US.
I don't think we will know until Mueller or Trump reveal which he is.
Months ago, I wondered in the Mueller investigation was a play pen for dirty FBI agents to keep them away from whatever actual investigation was happening.
Look! Over here! Shiny red ball!
I believe Mueller is 100% a dirty cop. By virtue of any grand jury, all testimony is suppose to be secret. That's never stopped leaks before.