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Originally Posted by Indigo Cardinal
I'd been channel-surfing today while watching McCain's funeral, and I caught a snippet from one of the channels to the effect of since Trump isn't on the ballot this year, Mueller is under no obligation to suspend his investigation or release a report before or after the usual grace period. I hadn't considered that before, but I suppose it could be a loophole?
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I'm not sure what you mean by 'loophole'. A loophole may exist or not; who knows?
But a suspension would simply be a temporary halt to the investigation while the election goes on. Suspension might give some of the perps some advantages, but no one knows what those may be, if there are any, or much else.
If Mueller is close to the end, it's equally possible he could re-start the investigation after the election, could keep it going at a level just low enough to track any pertinent developments that may happen during the election, or just continue on until his documentation is complete for his report.
Presenting the report to Congress is as important as the investigation, as it could be inflammatory, so if the finished report is still in the distance, Mueller could well hold it until after the election. I'm positive he would not allow the report to be released if it could influence the election in any way.
One thing is certain: Mueller and his team will leak nothing. The man himself has been as silent as the tomb throughout the 15 months of his team's progress, and I've never seen any Congressional investigation team that has as much internal discipline as this team's.
There is next to nothing anyone knows as to how the team is structured, who's in charge of what, who answers to who, or anything much. This bunch is extraordinary in their ability to stay quiet and focused on the job.
Do not believe anything you read or hear in the media about the team or Mr. Mueller. They do not know anything more in the media than the fellow on the street knows. Anything, including my own thoughts, is nothing but speculation. I'm only making my best guesses on what will happen. Anyone on a TV channel or on the internet who's more famous than me is doing just the same. They don't know any more than the rest of us know.
The one thing I am sure of is Mueller's report will be definitive. Everything I do know says that to me. Mr. Mueller will make no charges he can't substantiate with proof and evidence, and when it is released, all of us will know about as much as he does about how far and how wide the Russians interfered with the 2016 election.
Hunting down the Russians was Mueller's job. His only job.
He's already turned some of the bit players over to other courts for crimes they committed that aren't pertinent to his job, and while the investigation may be suspended, he may continue to do that- turn over others to other courts. That would depend on how much such turn-overs would affect this election's outcome.
Will it be bigger than Watergate when it finally comes down? Oh, my, yes!
Nixon was many things, but I'm absolutely sure he never desired to become a dictator. He served in WWII, the greatest fight against dictatorship in the 20th century. Nixon himself challenged some of the century's greatest dictators personally.
We tend to think of Hitler when we think of a dictator, but Mao Tse Tung, Malenkov, Kruschev, Pol Pot, and others were just as bad or worse. Nixon directly confronted them all.
Watergate was totally an internal affair that had no foreign connections. Nixon only wanted to disgrace and humiliate a few of his personal enemies. If his orders hadn't been illegal, his downfall would have never happened.
This is the very first time in our history that a foreign nation has tried to subvert an election.
Elections are the bedrock foundation of our democracy. Everything else in our governmental structure depends on them alone. That's why we worry about tampering, election rigging, gerrymandering, and all the other stuff so much. But all that is still only an internal problem inside the United States.
We have never faced a foreign nation who wants to take us over using our own government to do it before. But it's happened, many times, in other countries large and small.
Elections are the foundation of any democracy. In a strong democracy, subverting an election may be the
only way to destroy a democracy and replace it with a dictatorship.
This alone makes Watergate a lesser affair than this present affair. The crimes committed this time are much, much more serious in nature.
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