Another swamp rumor concerning Garland's appointment of a Trump special prosecutor; it's not implausible

my office is apolitical – trust me

My working theory has been that the Democrats’ drive to crush Trump forever is strategical: they see Trump as a beatable candidate, and by continuing to persecute him, they’ll keep his supporters furious and thus loyal, keeping their support away from a more electable candidate like DeSantis. But this argument also makes sense, explains the timing, and is exactly in one with how the Swamp operates:

Attorney General Garland is attempting to obstruct a congressional investigation.

… The appointment of a special counsel will block the newly installed Republican House from investigating uncomfortable questions about the Justice Department and FBI’s behavior concerning the Capitol riot on January 6.

If there were embedded agents in some of the groups of bad actors responsible for the riot, why was no one warned of the impending attack? Or if they were warned, why did they fail to act? Why were law enforcement and the Justice Department so badly surprised by events? Why, despite President Trump’s offer of 10,000 troops in the weeks before the event, were law enforcement officials not pushing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Mayor Muriel Bowser to be forearmed and prepared? Or if they were warned, why did they fail to act?

In the Nixon Watergate days, the mantra was that it wasn’t the crime; it was the cover-up. Garland’s special counsel appointment has all the earmarks of a cover-up. What cleaner way to engage in obstruction of Congress and its oversight powers than to hide it behind the cloak of special counsel secrecy? After two years during which he could have acted, Garland chose to appoint a special counsel only after the investigation was being turned over to Republican hands. The move screams of obstruction of Congress and a nonpolitical government agency’s interference in the political process.

…. If Republicans don’t use their power to stop this before it starts, all House requests for documents and testimony will be blocked by the White House and the Department of Justice as “compromising an ongoing” investigation. What better shield to hide wrongdoing, malfeasance, and incompetence? These investigations aren’t ongoing; they are never-ending taxpayer-funded opposition research. And what better jury nullification pool than Washington, D.C., to ensure that no matter what happens, Democrats walk and Republicans rot in solitary?

If the House gives the executive branch a pass on scouring the communications of all members of Congress, their staff, and outside consultants, while committee chairs are blocked from access to Executive branch documents and witnesses, they will have allowed themselves to be neutered.

I’m not entirely on board with the author’s tone, but his essential point seems apt: every request from a House investigatory comittee for documents and testimony from, say, FBI employees will be stonewalled by a claim that “revealing that information, or allowing such testimony, will interfere with the ‘investigation’”. The rot runs deep.

Another thought:

Will the administration be brazen enough to pull the same trick when the Republicans begin investigating Biden’s pay-for-pay schemes with China and Ukraine? It would be in keeping with their track record up to now.