I share each of your concerns about both Rosenstein and Mueller. Both have histories that justify the concerns. But I’m hoping that Huber’s investigation branches out to encompass all of the obvious crimes that have been committed and that appointment of a special counsel can be avoided. This needs to break soon, not after the next election, and a special counsel will just slow things down.
As long as Huber and Horowitz are honest people they have all the powers necessary to do what any special counsel could accomplish, plus then there’s the issue of who would be chosen for that job. I’m personally comfortable with both Huber and Horowitz from what I’ve read. Maybe I’ll be wrong in that regard.
As for Mueller and Rosenstein, look, we’re not going all the way back to investigate their histories of mismanagement (and probably worse). But it’s possible that both have been put on notice that that is still an option, and it’s possible that they have agreed to cooperate with Sessions (and Trump) as long as they are assured of being left alone in the present investigations. That’s a stretch, I know, but it’s the compromise I’ve made between judging them as either White Hats or Black Hats in all this.
If either were a White Hat by now, I’d be skeptical given their pasts, but if either were a Black Hat today I really don’t think they’d be in their current positions. They’d have been treated like the other Black Hats, reassigned and given non-investigative duties, or encouraged to retire or resign. Again, I could be being too optimistic here and share your concern about each of them. Not that what either of us thinks matters a hoot, of course.
That is a fair point and very well could be the current strategy of Sessions and Trump et al. Let Horowitz finish his audit and pass the findings on to Huber for prosecution of any crimes. I am not sure about either of these people, I am embarrassed to say at one point I thought Mueller and Comey were respectable people. I let the iconic image of the FBI get in the way of my natural cynicism of government.
And yet I don’t know how I can ever really wrap my head around the implications of all this. If the FBI can pay foreign agents to manufacture evidence against the President and present that evidence in federal court, then they can do it to anyone for any reason. Why would they expect anyone to sit on a jury and believe a word they say? This may sound like hyperbole but I think it is pretty serious. This needs resolution.