We need to unpack that phrase just a bit. There are investigations all the time with multiple parties investigating where one or the other wishes they had known something the other knew earlier but didn't because of confusion, logistics, uncertainty etc. That is not at all what we have here based on this phrase. The Committee is telling us in plain English that they asked for things from DOJ and DOJ actively refused. An affirmative step of refusal is different than a paperwork snafu, mistaken understanding etc. It is knowingly and purposely standing in the way of an investigation. That is obstruction and is a violation of 18 U.S.C 1505 which covers "obstruction of pending congressional or federal administrative proceedings".
But of course violations of Federal Statutes can only be prosecuted by........DOJ. So here we are America. We have a Supreme Court that says it is above the law and accountable to nobody for a lack of ethics that would make Billie Sol Estes look like a saint. Now we can add to that a DOJ that openly and willfully engaged in violation of a Federal Statute and so also demonstrates holding itself above the law.
But her e-mails. Heaven and Earth were moved and no stone left unturned, over and over again going through the same "materials, witnesses and evidence" to see if they could nail Hillary. But his gun form. Millions and millions of dollars spent investigating over the course of years, while listening to a witness whose credibility was never established from the start, and finally it comes down to paying some back taxes and making a common dodge about drug use while filling out a gun purchase form? DOJ/Special Counsel then prosecutes for things almost never prosecuted. But no Special Counsel for Gaetz?
Yet I, as a citizen, am supposed to believe in the rule of law? I am supposed to believe in "Equal Protection"?
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