I heard from several pundits now

[edhopper]

That one of the audiences that the Committee hopes to reach with their evidence, is the DOJ.

If Garland's investigation is far ahead of Congress, why would that be?

[babylonsister]

1. Maybe some encouragement for the DOJ

to act?

[RockRaven]

2. The DOJ is full of small c conservatives. They move slow and don't take chances.

That's one of the many reasons why the federal prosecution conviction rate is so high.

It's not a matter of the DOJ not having the same info. It's a matter of the DOJ being, deep in their institutional bones, less likely to do as much with said info as the public or Congress would want.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. It's because we're not sufficiently "patient"

[Bev54]

4. I don't doubt the committee and the DOJ will work together and the

evidence will be turned over. Here is a snip from Empty Wheel that explains that the committee is able to get some information that is more difficult for the DOJ to obtain. It is a good article to read.

snip

Multiple reports on the January 6 Committee have indicated that they’re packaging their public hearings up with an eye towards making admissible evidence available to DOJ and other law enforcement investigations. Along with speech and debate and executive privileged testimony, the January 6 Committee has greater ability than DOJ to obtain the testimony of journalists than (under Merrick Garland’s media guidelines) prosecutors at DOJ can.

That’s why the prominent inclusion of Quested is of particular interest. As of last Thursday, there was just one reference to Quested in the Proud Boy Leaders discovery index (though his work is included in open source videos). But whatever testimony he provides tonight will become accessible to prosecutors, who have just one more week before deadlines on discovery start kicking in.

There’s one more detail that I expect the Committee to include that has gotten too little focus: the other bodies.

Because QAnon mobilized bodies in less direct ways than the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers, that effort is in some ways more accessible to Congress than to DOJ (because Congress doesn’t need to show probable cause to obtain evidence). And thus far, at least, the Committee’s efforts at understanding the role of the 1st Amendment Praetorian — militia associated more closely with Mike Flynn — have been more public than those of DOJ.

snip

Read the article at:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/09/prep-for-the-january-6-committee-hearings-focus-on-18-usc-372/

[stillcool]

5. pressure needs to be applied from somewhere