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I would say that the difference is that the Senate and its committees aren’t law enforcement agencies and do not investigate crimes. Exposing criminal wrongdoing is not the focus or purpose of their investigation.
Sure, there may be some significant overlap between the Senate investigation, which has the ostensible purpose of figuring out what happened in order to develop legislation that makes sure it doesn’t happen again, and a criminal investigation with the goal of indicting and prosecuting the wrongdoers - but I don’t think that the law enforcement agencies should be abrogating their duties to investigate crimes — a crime that involved an attempt to take away MY civil right to cast a vote that counts- to the Senate in order to save money.
I’m glad the DOJ is no longer under corrupt leadership but am not as confident about the FBI. I was very disturbed by Christopher Wray’s insistence (in a Congressional hearing) that he didn’t see a clear connection between Trump’s election loss and January 6th and his description of the Stop The Steal movement as “scattered online disputing of the election.”
Yes, he was probably trying to cover his ass after the massive FBI intelligence failure that made January 6th possible. I don’t think he’s a bad person, but I think he had to constantly compromise his integrity during Trump’s Presidency in order to keep his job. When people do that, even good people, especially good people, they come up with psychological justifications for doing so. Once that pattern of justification is in your head, it’s hard to drop it and face the truth of your actions, so you keep doing it.
That’s how corruption works.
ETA - I posted this in another forum yesterday.
IMHO, there is already plenty of evidence that supports charges of seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the United States against Jeffrey Clark and Mark Meadows, at minimum.
I do NOT think that everything needs to be tied together and linked to January 6th in order for it to be legally actionable. I think that might be a mistake, the same mistake that was made with Mueller/Russia - which is tying EVERYTHING to the one thing that can’t be definitively proven and may not even be true.
Even if they can’t find absolute proof that Trump planned for his supporters to overrun the Capitol on January 6th and that he thought the plan would work, there’s still plenty of wrongdoing to go around.