This is happening despite the fact that the leadership of both departments are appointees of an Administration that has a vested interested to reveal what is being hidden.
Both Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and Christopher Wray as FBI Director were appointed to their positions by Donald Trump. You would think that they would be able to "shake the tree" to allow a faster more transparent release of information to bring "truth" to light in the Russia probe . Yet it appears that these institutions are deliberately dragging their feet to protect their reputations.
It is painfully obvious that the intent is to run out the clock until a possible take over of the House which will give them a willing partner to hide their misdeeds, the Democrats.
The Democrats are the party of big government, of career politicians. The party of bureaucracy, believing that government properly "managed" can do good things. They are wrong, in fact that thought process is contrary to our founding principles.
The Founders attempted to create a limited national government to protect citizens not only from monarchies and dictators but government bureaucracies which, at any level, as they grow become self serving rather than servants of the public.
Bureaucracy exist to protect and enrich themselves.
They become "The Borg."
The "mission" of the individual institution becomes more important than..well the constitution itself. In fact the institutions' mission and preservation are distorted by institutional bias and arrogance to the point where their well being is substituted for that of the constitution. Or the environment, or education or the poor or our food or whatever cause the government entity has been entrusted to protect.
It is not to say that we do not need government agencies to "protect and serve" us, we most certainly do. But we need the agencies to protect and serve us not themselves.
At every turn of the the "Russian probe" we have seen information, at best, hesitantly released. Usually in highly redacted format.
In phase one we find out is that there appears no reason to withhold the information in the first place. But we are never quite sure if this is the case because redaction of the released information does not give us a complete picture.
Then phase two, we get an un-redacted version of the document and are left with the simple question, why? Why was this redacted in the first place? The answer is always the same.
It was to protect some institution or individuals' reputation.
It has nothing to do with national security, nothing to do with criminal investigations. It is protecting the Borg from disease, the truth.
We watch this play out over and over again, whether it is the IRS as in Lois Lerner, the ATF and Bundy, the gun runners at DOJ, etc. etc. etc.......
Institutional self preservation is a higher calling in the morass of the swamp than the rule of law or public service.
Worse still, the rule of law as applied to federal bureaucrats like a swamp itself is very murky. The goose and gander analogy need not apply for a license in DC.
The DC Borg like the fictional representation "assimilates" individuals and other institutions into itself. Reasonable causes, good people and worthwhile institutions become absorbed into the culture of the Borg without even realizing that they have been captured.
Self preservation in a swamp is a matter of survival not ideals unless of course your ideals are a collective state in which case you have found a home.
In the Borg the good die young. Those who go to fight the "good fight" of individual liberty and limited government are either assimilated or leave before they can truly change much. Trey Gowdy being a recent but by no means the lone example.
An administrative state, with administrative rules overseen by administrative courts. All managed by people whose best self interest is served by protecting all of it from "the people" is where we are today.
The "rules" have supplanted the "spirit" of liberty and freedom.
The solution? As much as it pains me to say it, Donald Trump. As I explained to a never Trumper recently, sometimes it takes a whore to clean up a whorehouse.
Trump is going directly after the administrative state. He is receding their rules and limiting their power. He is exposing their duplicity and even their justified attacks against him show their hypocrisy.
Trump is a blowhard buffoon in the midst of blowhard buffoons pretending not to be. The difference is that Trump for some unknown reason, probably self serving, has chosen to make a great many of America's founding principles the guidebook of his political agenda.
Trump's manners are course, his delivery disjointed, his past questionable at best, but his instincts are good for America.
I don't know if he can truly "drain the swamp" but its exposure to the public can do nothing but help.
More important than anything else, he can appoint judges who believe in the constitution NOT social justice.
That and the show are worth the price.
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