from the can't-have-accountability dept

Who wouldn’t love the chance to clear themselves of misconduct? I guess not the Trump DOJ, which decidedly won’t be investigating itself, even though it could cook the books to an acceptable temperature (155-170 internally) to let itself off the hook in the Reflecting Pool prosecution debacle.

It’s too many metaphors to be sure, at least in the previous sentence. But here’s the thing: the DOJ Inspector General, in theory, could examine these cases, get stonewalled by everyone, and selectively choose to ignore any input from the Department of Interior (which apparently had always known the problem was faulty work rather than vandalism) to deliver a clean bill of (rights violation) health to the DOJ.

Given that it won’t , we have to believe the DOJ Inspector General would rather not get involved because the only possible outcome is the end of a career, rather than a dispassionate recounting of the facts on the ground.

The Department of Justice’s inspector general has…