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(884 posts)is that generic "whodunwhat" hearings suffer the characteristic of naturally leading to any violations being referred to DOJ, which we know to expect not to handle appropriately. There are no real stakes to any such hearings, beyond public perception. Everyone knows it, and because of that, such hearings will largely be dismissed as the same sort of pointless/nakedly partisan farce that the Benghazi hearings were considered outside wingnut circles.
Impeachment investigations and hearings, on the other hand, carry a very real potential consequence from which only Senators, who must actually ultimately answer to the people, can protect Trump. The stakes are real, and the voters are empowered to a much greater extent than the alternative case in which everything is at the discretion of on AG Barr. That means a vastly different level of attention.