The Columnist reviews Luke Harding’s new book, “Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win.” Odds Are, Russia Owns Trump
https://nyti.ms/2icfx2N
Interesting tidbit:
"One uncanny aspect of the investigations into Trump’s Russia connections is that instead of too little evidence there’s too much. It’s impossible to keep it straight without the kind of chaotic wall charts that Carrie Mathison of “Homeland” assembled during her manic episodes. "
My biggest fear about relying on the special prosecutor is that the evidence Mueller & his aids collects might not see the light of day. There are two ways that could happen
i) the investigation gets shut down
ii) aspects of the investigation result in plea-bargins or no criminal charges.
The former is a constant possibility, and the wider the net gets cast the more members of congress might fear unflattering things about themselves or their party will come out, threatening their own careers or their majority. The natural tendancy here is to eliminate the threat and shut it down.
the latter is talked about much less but equally unsettling. The only evidence that will become public will be that which is directly applicable to filed criminal charges. There may be a lot of wrong-doing uncovered by the probe which falls into the murky grey area of prosecutable. There's a lot of unethical, immoral and even illegal crap that could have taken place but won't rise to the level of criminal charges. Those findings are unlikely to see the light of day. In the same vein, someone who is so screwed legally might coorporate in exchange for keeping the more sordid details out of the public record, so while we may learn that person A pleads guilty to lying on federal forms and accepting gifts from hostile powers without the proper declarations we won't learn about how he sold his country downriver to do lines of coke on a Russian hooker.