re: #72 Targetpractice

This seems to be the fig leaf that Jefferson Beauregard is offering to make Donny’s “demand” come true: Just expand the OIG investigation, making it even more political, in order to avoid a total mutiny over at the Hoover building.

It’s a risky move in that once begun OIG investigations cannot be blocked or interfered with by Sessions or Rosenstein. If Trump ends up not liking where Horowitz goes with this he’s going to have to fire him personally, which will elicit another obstruction finding by Mueller.

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