'This May Be Savvy Way To Investigate Jan. 6': Legal Expert On Surprising DOJ Move - The Reid Out

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The Justice Department requesting transcripts from the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection is analyzed by Joy Reid and her legal expert guests, Glenn Kirschner and Barbara McQuade.

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1. In the language of vintage Madison Avenue,

Talk, talk, talk. When do we eat? or perhaps "Where's the beef?"

All the promises of "The big one" keep coming, but the principals keep campaigning. Everyone knows that the process is time sensitive, but the countdown clock keeps running. This whole process is going to end in a whimper, not a bang. The final outcome is too important to be influenced by truth or justice.

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2. I am pleased to see to see that experts who have been negative on DOJ are changing their minds

I have been following the complaints about the DOJ not moving fast enough on the Jan. 6 investigation. I like Glen Kurshner but he has been down on the DOJ. That changed to a great deal with the latest announcement. The DOJ made a very savy legal move to let the Jan. 6 committee investigate this matter and will be able to use the Jan. 6 committee work. In addition, the Jan. 6 committee will be able to inform the public as to the whole story.

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https://www.rawstory.com/glenn-kirschner-msnbc/

Federal authorities opened a new direction in their criminal probe by requesting transcripts of interviews conducted by congressional investigators, and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner explained why that move was "savvy."

"I think we've all experienced some frustration because it doesn't look like the Department of Justice has been investigating this the way it would ordinarily investigate, you know, even large-scale conspiracy cases because they don't appear to have been sort of carpet-bombing folks with grand jury subpoenas the way we ordinarily would," Kirschner said.

Kirschner praised DOJ investigators for waiting until the Select Committee had conducted its interviews instead of pursuing the same witnesses.

"If the Department of Justice had gone after everybody with grand jury subpoenas, they probably would have been battling witness after witness after witness, these thousand-plus witnesses," he said. "They would have been battling Congress, who gets which witness first and who has the greater priority. Now what the Department of Justice can do is take a thousand-plus transcripts and they can use that to build their criminal investigation.

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3. K&R, thanks for posting!

With both Glenn Kirschner and Barbara McQuade, this was important and I wondered what had happened to it. Guess they got distracted by last night's unusual primary news, their schedule was all over the place.