His solution was elegant in design, brilliant in conception. He needed to be seen as doing nothing-prosecuting the “dark web,” or Medicare fraud, or MS-13-while someone else did the heavy lifting. In short, Sessions could not personally lead the attack on the Swamp, nor could he ignore the criminality. He, not the real culprits, would become the object of the opposition’s legal, legislative, and propaganda efforts.
At the same time, politically he could not prosecute him. Sessions could not ignore these illegalities. There was too much rampant criminality on display: the Clinton e-mails, the U1 scandal, the Clinton Foundation’s “pay for play” structure the reports-as yet unproven-of “Deep State” resistance to the administration within the FBI and the Department of Justice. If it took Sessions any longer, it’s doubtful once his confirmation hearings concluded that he was under any illusions as to the enemy he faced.Ĭertainly such a foe would not permit a legitimate investigation of the past administration’s crimes by the Attorney General of the new administration. Trump had already told Rush Limbaugh he was shocked at the level of vitriol that remained by January, but had now understood it would not evaporate quickly. He was painted as the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan-an organization he had crushed as Attorney General in Alabama. Sessions personally found people he formerly though of as friends in the Senate accusing him of the most vile attitudes. Both Trump and Sessions after the election had been shocked to see the level of hostility by the left to a duly constituted American election. It’s not clear exactly when the plan came to Sessions, but clearly it was before his recusal. Horowitz was one of those rare Washington creatures: a man who actually has a sense of honesty in his mission.įrom the first moments in the administration, Jeff Sessions knew what he had in Horowitz. Horowitz had been, in the words of Arlo Guthrie, “oppressed, suppressed, repressed sitting on the Group W bench.” His legitimate investigations under the Obama regime had been squelched, sidetracked, or unceremoniously cancelled. There was an investigation under way (perhaps many) at the very moment Sessions uttered those words. In fact, Sessions inherited an ongoing investigation by the Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The Swamp-and virtually all of the hysterical right that was conditioned to being stabbed in the back by its elected or appointed officials-merely assumed that no investigation was going on. But what he did not say was that the announcement should not be interpreted as denial of the existence of any such investigation.” On March 2, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from “any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.” Everyone forgot the line that followed: “This announcement should not be interpreted as confirmation of the existence of any investigation or suggestive of the scope of any such investigation,” he added.
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