information, a slow bleed, to cover themselves. it is all a cya. remember,no they know what s out there. they know they are about to get caught. this is all about controlling the narrative, spinning the narrative, trying p to protect themselves and they probably learned a thingro or two from hillary about acid washing hard drives. we ve got to be careful. there is another major component to all of this. rosenstein knows that the inspector general, he doesn t have any real prosecutorial power. horwitz can t convene a grand jury. he cannot indict people. he can only give criminal referrals like in the case of andrew mccabe. on top of all of that, as we are seeing with this ig report on the clinton email investigation, the fbi, they doj, both get to review and try and refute facts and redact information, again, probably falsely, and the name of national security. we have been sayingg congress needs to see these documents. we have checks and balances, separation of powers, coequal branches
quote stockholm syndrome. and how they did ehey could to avoringing charges nst any of clinton s team. what is clear, is that nothing he said was a security threat that would require a reduction in order to protect the country. the doj was just trying to cover itself from keeping the public learning the truth about what was going on, is not a defense? jonathan turley is a professor at george washington university law school and he joins us tonight. it s a very simple question, is the department of justice allowed to redact information solely for thele purpose of protecting its own reputation? it is not even though it has a long history of doing so not just in congress but in the courts. what s really funny is that they will charge someone who gives them misleading information, but theyillgress redacted classified information that proves entirely unclassified. there is this sense of acting with utter impunity when you
slowly leak out this information a slow bleed to cover themselves. it s all acya. remember, they know what is out there. they know they re about to get caught. this is all about controlling the narrative, spinning the narrative, trying to protect themselves and they probably learned a thing or two from hillary about acid washing hard drives. we have to be careful. another major component. rosenstein, the inspector general doesn t have any prosecutorial power. horowitz can t indict people. he can only give criminal referrals like in the case of andrew mccabe. the fbi and the doj get to review and try to refute facts and redact information, probably falsely in the name of national security. we ve been saying congress needs to see these documents. we have checks and balances, separation of powers, co-equal