Originally Posted by
lardy
This is the situation as I understand it - not what I want it to be, as I'd love all that information to be used to punish whoever was genuinely involved, no matter who they are. But this is why I think the democrats didn't release it.
Firstly, it's not for Biden to order their release, as the president shouldn't overstep his bounds into the judiciary. The president doesn't control investigations and shouldn't be able to order the DOJ to do this or that. As far as I know, Biden never promised to release them while Trump did, hence the backlash. Biden followed these rules, not realising that the rules have changed (or don't really exist now) and probably thinking that Trump wouldn't be getting back in and it would all die down. Similar to how Biden persisted with Garland and wasted their four years.
Secondly, and probably more importantly, this sort of information is never normally just released by law enforcement. They would use it to build cases and prosecute - the fact that none of the DOJs have done this is shameful, but I can't think of any times when something like this was released to the public and press to sift through. But you do need this process because there are inevitably going to be innocent names in those files as well as the guilty ones, of various degrees of guilt. Is at least part of the reason that no indictments are forthcoming because it's powerful people involved? Almost certainly yes, and that applies for both blues and reds here.