General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: When is Garland going to arrest Trump for Obstructing a Federal Grand Jury subpoena? [View all]BumRushDaShow
(170,840 posts)and they are basically one cog in the process. They don't always have a full understanding of how many agencies function, which is why that agency has to go through a lot of hoops to spell it out for "the prosecutors" (i.e., reference statutes that might apply and why). Usually agencies have a whole template to do this that provided by DOJ. From that point on, DOJ uses that, along with any ancillary info they are able to obtain through subpoena and witness statements, to decide how to proceed.
The news shows rarely bring in actual agency people (outside of people like Fauci or Walensky, etc) to try to explain what they do. They do their programming based on the legal angles (where they as the media would have access through FOI, of court actions). What agencies do for internal processes are considered "mundane, boring, and bureaucratic", despite the fact that most of that was put in place was because Congress passed a law that demanded it be done.