(03-30-2019, 09:28 PM)jj82284 Wrote: Under control?  They knew 6 months in there was no collusion.  The dossier was childish on its face and easily falsifiable.  The most egregious circumstantial evidence (Trump tower, Roger stone and wiki) were actually conflicting and ecsculpatory.  

They kept manafort in solitary confinement for months, they breached the attorney client privilege with no proof of an underlying crime or fraud (not to mention that he could easily disprove the parts of the dossier that dealt with him), the put popadopolus in jail when he was documented to be the target of American intelligence assets. They timed indictments to embarrass the president abroad. I could go on...

The Ukrainian government is indicting their own intelligence assets for helping Clinton.  2 years and not a word from the special council.  No leaks, they just knew to hang out @ Roger Stone's house?

Well put.

Once Mueller got going, it probably wasn't long into it when he realized it to be the farce it was.

He realized it for the absolute steamer it was, then his job became being as thorough as possible since he knew the inevitable outcome would be politicized as it's being today.  Thorough methodology and documentation.

The fact the only thing it produced were process crimes and items completely unrelated to work done for the administration is reflective of Mueller feeling responsibility to show:

1.  The investigation was, in fact, thorough.  Perhaps even to an extreme, since what was found was 0% related to the actual subject of the investigation.
2.  Had he not done so, conspiracy theories would have flown accusing him of *not* doing a thorough job.  Nutjobs are suggesting he was compromised simply because the conclusion was not what they desired in their blackened hearts.  The facts and truth prove otherwise.

He didn't drag it out for partisan reasons.  He drug it out farther than necessary because early on he saw it for the nothingburger it was but had no recourse other than see it through at that point.  The time and token prosecutions were necessary to legitimize it's very existence.  It should never have been in the first place, and he knew it.

All of us paying attention from the beginning knew it all along, too.  It's well documented here on this forum in real time.  From the very beginning.

Just as it has been from those truly interested in the truth of it all.

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