And people wonder why we're skeptical about DOJ prosecuting trump et al. Ask James Clyburn:

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71. Interpreting someone else's comments without the full information is always fraught with the

possibility of misinterpretation. Like you, I don’t know what exactly Rep. Clyburn was hinting at, but I have made several comments here about the perceived slowness of the investigation. I have believed from the beginning that Garland should have appointed a Special Prosecutor to immediately investigate January 6 and the attempts by anyone to instigate the efforts to prevent Biden from taking office. That he didn’t and that we are sitting here a year and a half later does not inspire confidence that anything is being done other than prosecuting the people who were on video violently assaulting those trying to protect the Capitol and the building itself. Indeed, the suspicion is that Garland did not want to investigate the higher ups because of potential political fallout and only started to do so because of the revelations of the January 6 Committee. If so, that means many more months of investigation and testimony before anything will happen, at which point we could be running into a presidential election with Donald Trump as a candidate.

We now know that there is a grand jury because Peter Navarro was summoned to appear at the end of May, but he is the only one known to have been subpoenaed so far. One person who was not even the closest one to Trump. We do not know whether people much closer to Trump have also been summoned, such as Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Pence, Ginni Thomas, White House aides, anyone who was regularly in the White House to January 6. That sort of information tends to leak because people talk, and it is Navarro who released his summons to the news media. Navarro refused to appear so his trial is not scheduled until several months from now. And there’s DOJ’s refusal to hold Mark Meadows in contempt for refusing to cooperate with the January 6 Committee, thus stymying part of its investigation.

There are so many questions to which we have no answers, such as who provided the inside information about which windows were vulnerable. We know some investigations are going on, and
I’m sure Rep. Clyburn knows far more about what is happening than I do, but I interpret his remarks to mean that the DOJ is moving at a snail’s pace and he wants to see some public progress. He’s questioning whether the DOJ has the right people on the job. Again, a Special Prosecutor would have been able to choose people outside the DOJ and thus outside the Trump orbit to do this investigation. That he didn’t lends credence to the suspicion that people inside the DOJ are slow walking the investigation because certainly all the Trump/Barr hires were not fired. Most of the US Attorneys were asked to resign, but most of the US Attorneys would have nothing to do with this investigation. I have long believed that members of the FBI are primarily Republican—again, just speculation on my part based on past actions like those of the NY FBI that fed negative information to Rudy about Clinton’s emails—but that is not evidence that they are hampering the investigation.

The apparent lack of progress by the DOJ causes a great deal of concern for many people, and I suspect Rep. Clyburn may simply be voicing his concern publicly because he too is frustrated and hopes to light a fire under Garland. Garland is certainly not a politician, but he is a top official in the Biden administration and the lack of any obvious progress in holding anyone other than the foot soldiers accountable for the very serious crime of insurrection can lead many people, myself included, to wonder whether Garland has the guts to investigate and possibly indict a former president. Garland’s lack of any indictments of the planners of January 6 has allowed Republicans the bullhorn for 18 months with no pushback other than various Democrats denying that the election was stolen. That, too, must gall Rep. Clyburn because he knows the likelihood of losses in the midterms and wants to see some progress before then. And then we have a presidential election where Trump could be the Republican candidate. Too many people fear that he will get a pass simply because it’s too difficult to prosecute a former president.