Can you hear the chatter coming from Washington, D.C.?
It indicates that special counsel Robert Mueller might be nearing the end of his exhaustive investigation into whether the Donald Trump campaign colluded with Russians who interfered with our electoral process in 2016. The latest report suggests he’ll be done by the middle of February.
There’s been some additional chatter that Mueller might not let the public in on all of his findings, whatever they produce.
Here’s a request. No, a demand! Make it public, Mr. Special Counsel. Make as much of it public as you possibly can.
Mueller, of course, need not reveal national security secrets if there are any to be found in his report. But the rest of it? The stuff that is pertinent to the public’s keen interest in what he’s been pursuing for more than a year? It needs to be laid bare for the public to peruse and ponder.
Mueller already has cost the public a lot of money. The amount runs in the tens of millions of dollars. That’s our money. It comes from our pockets. Thus, the results of that public expenditure become the public’s business.
Donald Trump would have us all believe that “no one cares” about the special counsel’s work. He has suggested that “only the ‘fake news’ media” are interested in this stuff. The president is badly, egregiously mistaken.
Accordingly, the special counsel should keep in mind that the public interest has been buttressed by the public’s money.
Let us see all that we need to see.
I sure would like an accounting of all the money spent by this special prosecutor, all for a couple of convictions of lying to the FBI and a lengthy tax evasion conviction. By the way, this was an investigation into RUSSIAN involvement in the 2016 election, wasn’t it John?
There will be more convictions to come, of that I am sure. You are right about Russian involvement . . . and also about whether the Trumpies helped them along. Let’s all stay tuned. Thanks as always for your comment.