They cannot investigate themselves and then declare themselves totally exonerated. It is the job of Congress to oversee the Executive Branch.

Democratic-controlled House. GOP are in deep cahoots w/ the Idiot and the coverup reeks of corruption and collusion. Between the AG. Senate & WH the lines have been blurred since the Idiot took office. We've been under 1-party rule since 2016. We need to take it back in 2020. We can do this if we don't eat our own and hang out to dry the best candidate we've got.

were all executive branch employees who for all intents and purposes served at the pleasure of the president.

Congress should have always taken the lead, but the Republicans who ran both houses completely abdicated their responsibility.

and not the entire DOJ until the report is submitted? They do have the power of the purse after all.

It's that simple

Trump does what he wants and there is nothing that can stop him now except impeachment and that may never happen.

... seeing Red Don has a 24/7 mouthpiece in FAUX news to float his number by 7 - 15%

I get feeling hopeless but let’s not act like there isn’t anything we can do.

And, once it's stolen from us again, then what?

Our elections may very well be rigged, but we still need to enthusiastically and overwhelmingly vote in them.

What exactly are you advocating that we do in place of voting?

" enthusiastically and overwhelmingly" voting in elections. Not only do I vote, but I help register voters as well as GOTV work, which we have been doing constantly since Feb 9, 2017 when the group (of which I am a charter member) was formed. We had several very satisfactory victories as a result, three other spin-off groups, several voter registrars/deputy registrars and, in spite of a couple of bitter losses, our numbers are improving with every new election cycle.

You're welcome.

I am not i to posting the work I do but it’s on par with what you have posted.

But what are you advocating people do? I don’t understand your message aside from the elections are rigged. I guess I myself am just tired of feeling depressed and in despair.

"...to have a special counsel who is not a political appointee and who is independent of the Department of Justice make the decision whether to charge a crime."

Well then, it appears mueller's failure to complete his duty to make the decision whether to charge a crime is in direct violation of the letter and spirit of the counsel regulations as well.

... see even a redacted portion of the Mueller report as of now I don't trust 1 letter of his "memo" that he claims him and Rosenstein wrote.

These things are simple and by now congress etc should at least have a solid date to see the whole report without the multitudes of crap taken out of it.

Then we can compare and contrast the Mueller report with the Barr report.

This is a criminal cover up of treason and a coup.

entire operation, from the beginning of tRump's run, has been a coup launched and coordinated by Vladimir Putin.

And we're just watching it happen while we wait for another chance to vote in what will be another stolen election, if there is an election at all.

... and the hacking of our elections (Russ Feingold was @ > 90% of winning) by Russia
and the cooperation and or silence by members of the Republican party and some of the
media is as big as the attack on Pearl Harbor, 9-11, or the lies that got us into Vietnam.

BTW it now turns out that Russian money was behind "The Apprentice" in order to sell the
false story that Trump was a big successful businessman and billionaire when in truth he
had failed @ many of his businesses and was being supported by money laundering and
Russian money.

And I might be wrong but I think Trump had help in the primaries from Russia then too.

We are always the loser when our slight wrongs are exaggerated and their grievous faults get excused .
I don't understand how this continues, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

There are huge areas of the country where right wing hate is all that is on AM radio. "Oh, no one listens to AM radio anymore," the left says. But that's not true. Rural people use AM radio to get the latest on weather, crop reports, equipment and land sales in the area. All that's intermixed with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, who I believe gets something like 2-3 hours a day to rant against the dems/left/progressives. Fox News is just the evil spawn of hate radio.

The right comes up with "No Child Left Behind," & "Clean Skies, Healthy Forests," & "Killing Grandma." Doesn't matter that the names of the policies are deceptive, they catch the attention of the low info voters.

The dems are much better at policy than the GOP is, but they suck at politics. Our new crop of dems gives me some hope.

Trump's employee of the month

The info has to go to Congress to evaluate if the actions of the president rise to the impeachment standard.

It is completely clear that Barr is not supposed to hold onto the report and keep it from the Congress.

The whole reason it exists is to inform Congress.