Republican Senator Rand Paul has said the is no need to investigate former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and it would not make sense having Republicans investigate Republicans. I partly agree.

I think his implication was the there was too much for the Republicans to do and they should not waste time on investigations into each other. But my agreement comes not from thinking Republicans are too busy or that they have important things to do but because I think this is a issue could be very important and if Republicans investigate Republicans they seem unlikely to look very hard. I think the investigation should be as nonpartisan as possible and look at some of the wider problems of Russian influence rather than be limited to the problems of one former official.

Here is the Senator’s quote from CNN:

“I just don’t think it’s useful to be doing investigation after investigation, particularly of your own party. We’ll never even get started with doing the things we need to do, like repealing Obamacare, if we’re spending our whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans. I think it makes no sense.”

But Senator Paul also seems to raise an issue I had not considered. I have certainly seen a good number of problems in the first few weeks of the Trump administration. And if just some are investigated then investigation might turn into very burdensome task.

Would we be better served by one or a few independent investigations than many partisan investigations or worse, patisan whitewashes of potential problems?