If SES-sions is truly playing a game, it is by Rule of Skullduggery, and he is already guilty, regardless of motive.
He has illicitly abandoned his authority outside recusal to Rosenstein; he has conspired to stonewall Congressional, Constitutional, oversight. These are not his lawful prerogatives.
He has violated his Oath in multiple ways.
I can’t disagree with what you said at all.
My only responses are 1) I could be misreading it, or 2) he thinks this is in the best interests of justice. I don’t know if Sessions himself is the person ignoring Congress. We don’t know the internal dialogue inside the DOJ and Sessions could be ordering his staff to comply and they play coy games and stall in response.
But that aside, I would liken it to any kind of police investigation. The cops allow all kinds of crimes to continue uninterrupted during a larger investigation. For example they catch and release street drug dealers and watch them selling drugs for months on end just to catch the dealer’s supplier later on.
I cannot believe that Trump would allow himself to take all this fire without shooting back unless he had a strategy. He has always been of the “hit them back 10x harder” school. Why would he just sit on his hands? I don’t truly know but my guess is he thinks it is the better strategy. If Trump is innocent then what does he have to fear? Besides, the only thing that could possibly happen to Trump is that he is impeached and removed from office - and the odds of impeachments are very very low while the odds of 67 Senators voting to remove him are infinitesimal.
So Trump can sit back and let Mueller take his best shot, and when Mueller is out of steam and there is nothing left for the anti-Trump side to use to attack or distract from the counter-attack, that is when Sessions can let the deluge flow.