Grand conspiracy probe has spent three lead prosecutors since September and filed zero charges

…(cont) Fox News, the tenth of September: "Joseph diGenova resigned from his Justice Department role investigating the alleged 'Grand Conspiracy' surrounding the Trump-Russia investigations." Next morning CBS filled it in — diGenova had been "tapped by Attorney General Todd Blanche to supervise the 'grand conspiracy' investigation targeting Obama- and Biden-era officials," and he told CBS he had resigned. That's the first name my nephew crossed out. And here's the question he asked me, which I could not answer for him: if the supervisor is gone on the tenth, whose case is it on the eleventh?

Three days later — the fourteenth — CBS again: John Brennan, the former CIA director, "was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Florida as part of the 'grand conspiracy' investigation into Obama- and Biden-era officials." A grand jury was seated. A date was set. Government paper went out to a man with a lawyer. My nephew asked whose signature goes on a subpoena like that. I wrote the question down and left the line blank.

The twenty-ninth of September, ABC News: "Another Trump loyalist tasked to help lead a controversial conspiracy probe targeting President Trump's political foes has resigned from the DOJ." Second name off the sheet, nineteen days after the first. Then Friday — that's yesterday — the Washington Examiner: "The top federal prosecutor in South Florida resigned Friday," Jason Reding Quiñones, "whose office oversaw the investigation into the origins and handling of Trump-Russia collusion allegations." The Attorney General announced it. ABC called that prosecutor "the U.S. attorney tasked with leading" the probe. Third name, and my nephew's sheet is now mostly cross-outs. Same Friday, Fox had John Eisenberg, who runs the National Security Division, stepping down as well, one day after Harmeet Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division said she'd be leaving.

Now, I know what you're going to tell me: lawyers come and go, that's government. Fine. But I've got a car in the garage that has needed a fan belt since April, and here is what I have to show for it — three shops, three work orders, three diagnostic invoices, and a car that will not turn over. Last month my wife stood in the garage door and asked me a fair question. Which one of those pieces of paper, she said, is the repair. Not the estimate. Not the appointment. Which one is the car running. I couldn't hand her one. The pile got taller, the car stayed exactly where it was, and the pile and the car are two different kinds of paperwork.

So that's what I brought back to my nephew, and I'd put it to the Department in their own words off their own announcements. Since the tenth of September, we have three announcements about who is leaving. How many announcements are there about who has been charged?

Oh — I'm sorry, one more thing and then I'll let you get back to your afternoon. The grand jury. The one in Florida, the fourteenth of September, the one a former CIA director was subpoenaed to sit in front of. Whose office was that in? And of the names my nephew crossed out, which one ran that office until Friday?