Did the J6 Committee slow down the DOJ investigation ?

[kentuck]

Could the DOJ have informed the public to the same degree that the j6 Committee did?

Could the DOJ have done the required investigation without the efforts of the J6 Committee? Even if Jack Smith had been appointed two years ago, would he be ahead of where he is today?

Or was it such a huge and complex investigation that there was no other way to inform the public of the scope and intent of the crimes committed in the attempted coup and overthrow of our legitimately elected government?

Did the J6 Committee slow down the process or did they speed it up? Could Garland and the DOJ have done the same thorough investigation if the J6 Committee had not been involved?'

In my opinion, the pace, which many believe has been too slow, was a necessity, in order for the people to understand the scope and the number of people involved in the conspiracy. I doubt that we would be where we are today if the J6 Committee had not have done the thorough job that they did. The DOJ would have only stepped on the Committee's work if they had ignored the work of the Committee and went out on their own accord to investigate what had transpired on January 6th. It is doubtful they would have delved into the inner workings of the conspiracists if the Committee had not made their information public.

Although many argue that the DOJ has been too slow in their investigation and indictments, I doubt they would be where they are today if they had gone out on their own, ignoring the work of the January 6th Committee.

In the big picture, in the biggest investigation in the history of the DOJ, they would not be as far along as they are today if not for the work of the J6 Committee.

Just my opinion.

[erronis]

1. IANAL, but no. Any DOJ investigation would have been cloaked. The J6C was open

and revealing.

Did they the J6C interfere with ongoing DOJ (or other) investigations? Perhaps. But there are legitimate reasons for state, federal (executive/doj, and congressional) investigations to go on simultaneously.

I've seen a lot of sniping at the J6C but all-in-all I think they put much of the obvious evidence in front of the world (that was willing to watch). There's no pulling this back unless history only belongs to the RW zealots.

[Chainfire]

2. If we don't get anything else, at least the J6 committee layed out the crimes for us all to see.

It is yet to be determined if the DOJ improves on that.

[Autumn]

3. I don't believe they did. I think the DOJ slow walked it.

[kentuck]

4. I would agree that they "slow-walked" it...

...but out of necessity. It was necessary for the Congress to investigate because the DOJ could not have done it by themselves. We would not be as far along as we are today if we had depended solely on the DOJ to do the investigation and prosecutions. We would not know what we know now.

[Bev54]

5. The Jan 6 committee did slow down the DOJ investigation and the Georgia investigation

when they refused to hand over transcripts of interviews until they disbanded, which was after Willis's special grand jury was finished. They have had to go through all the transcripts looking for new info, discrepancies and/or possible exculpatory information prior to recommending charges.