Guilty as Charged

While endless debate has been unleashed with the most recent indictment returned by the grand jury empaneled by Special Counsel Mueller, most of it is but more tea leaves to be read as so much wishful partisan cheer for Putin… or jeer for Trump.

Watching journalists and fans, alike, weigh in, with expert certainty, on matters of complex litigation and sophisticated criminal procedure, as if a mere cotton candy purchase may pass time with sweetened fancy,  however,  it provides little informed answer by way of what a “case” is, or is not, and where it may ultimately lead.--SLC

We are all, every one of us, indictable.

But, if that’s the case, than why would Mueller waste time and money compiling a 37-page document alleging all-manner of nefarious conduct when he knew for certain that the alleged perpetrators would never be prosecuted? Why?

Isn’t is because the indictments are not really a vehicle for criminal prosecution, but a vehicle for political grandstanding? Isn’t that the real purpose of the indictments, to add another layer of dirt to the mountain of unreliable, uncorroborated, unproven allegations of Russian meddling. Mueller is not acting in his capacity as Special Counsel, he is acting in his role of deep state hatchet-man whose job is to gather scalps by any means necessary.--MW

Because we're all guilty of fraternizing with Russians--at least I am, for many moons ago I spoke to a Russian bartender in a dive bar on the east side.  We didn't specifically talk politics, but that's not the point.  The point is that she could have been a fraud, or worse, a Russian national intent on corrupting my very existence.

She was, in short, without me knowing it, an existential threat.

There I was then, a tipsy dupe.

Has Bill Moyers recovered his good sense?

This young woman gets it.


TS