Interesting take. Are congressional investigations used by DOJ to enpanel grand juries and/or issue indictments? Doesn't the DOJ (through the FBI) have to re-investigate everything? If so, doesn't that make the January 6 Committee overtly and completely political?

Given your definition of a criminal conspiracy, how do you view the case against Michael Sussman, the Perkins Coie attorney charged with lying to the FBI about who he represented (or didn't represent) while bringing false information to the FBI supposedly linking the Trump Campaign/Trump White House computers with those of a Russian bank?

Sussman allegedly texted the FBI that he was providing the information to "help the bureau" and not on behalf of any client or company. Yet, his law firm billing records allegedly show that he billed the Clinton campaign for his time working on the alleged Trump/Russian bank issues.

Perkins Coie also represented Hillary's campaign and the Democratic National Committee as well as being neck-deep in concocting the dodgy Steele Dossier on which so much of the Russian collusion allegations against Donald Trump were based. Perkins Coie made every effort to ensure their fiction made its way into the counterintelligence apparatus of the federal government.

Is it much of a stretch to make the leap that Sussman's Russian bank fiction and the Steele Dossier fiction were all part of a Hillary Campaign/DNC conspiracy to try and paint Donald Trump as a Russian agent? Remember, this all got ramped up when Hillary was facing scrutiny for the crimes she committed with her homebrew email server she set up to thwart Freedom of Information Act Requests, to stymie Congressional oversight, and over which she was grossly negligent in the handling of information classified at the highest levels.