CSNbbs

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/r...-missteps/

Good read. Andrew McCarthy rakes the FBI and DOJ over the coals on their redactions, which are heavily simply to avoid making themselves look bad. And ultimately, Trump needs to make the DOJ comply with Congress.

Conclusion
There is no Department of Justice in the Constitution. It is an executive-branch component created by Congress, funded with taxpayer funds appropriated by Congress, and subject to congressional oversight to ensure that its operations are conducted in accordance with their statutory purposes. Because of the sensitivity of their law-enforcement and intelligence missions, the Justice Department and its premier agency, the FBI, are shown great deference when lawmakers make requests — or even demands — for information. Contrary to what Justice Department leadership apparently believes, this deference is not an entitlement. It is result of respect earned over time by an institution that — its proud alumni like to believe — has a tradition of dealing honorably and transparently with peer branches of government.
It is a fact of life that the precious commodity of a good reputation takes much less time to lose than to build.



Comments
There is no defending the redactions that have now been disclosed. Especially in light of recent history, this powerfully suggests that there is no justification for withholding much else that the Justice Department refuses to reveal.
Republican committees can carp all they like about Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. The buck stops with the president.

Andrew C. McCarthy — Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute

Along those same lines, here's what I had to say elsewhere about this subject.

(05-07-2018 06:53 PM)TechRocks Wrote: [ -> ]A template has been laid for overturning future elections, even if Trump isn't ultimately ousted.

Load the upper eschelons of the FBI, DOJ, and State Department with political purists, generate enough doubt about the legitimacy of the new president via opposition-funded research and hit pieces, appoint a special prosecutor, disrupt the new president's ability to govern and then ultimately grind him down with selective leaks to the MSM.

While I would like to believe that the right is watching and learning how it's done, unfortunately I know that's not the case because the right still clings to such silly concepts as beleiving in the constitution. And that's the right thing to do.

If Trump survives this, and still has majorities in both the house and senate, I'd like to see a push for a major restructuring of the FBI in particular, and the DOJ in general. If the current punishment for fomenting and participating in political mischief isn't enough, then up the ante significantly.

This shyte has got to stop or the country might never recover.