The Russia Investigation Is Moving Really Freaking Fast

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 election took a significant step forward Friday, with the indictment of 13 Russian nationals and and three Russian organizations along with the announcement of a guilty plea from a California man for identity fraud.

The indictment and guilty plea are important because they are the first charges related to Russian attempts to sabotage the election. (The other indictment and pleas in the Mueller investigation have been in relation to other criminal activities.) The election interference is an activity long denounced by the U.S. intelligence community but routinely called into question by President Trump.

The indictment is also the latest sign that Mueller’s investigation is still moving quickly and ambitiously in pressing charges against those involved.

Our analysis of special counsel probes in the modern era, starting in 1979,1 puts Mueller’s investigation in select company for producing criminal charges at all — a majority of the investigations over the past four decades ended without charges being filed against anyone.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-russia-investigation-is-moving-really-freaking-fast/

[Leghorn21]

1. Sure as hell is, Mama, OMG. We all need to take more B-Plex and calcium and I guess

Tide Pods now because I hear tell this party’s just. gettin. started.

Whewwwww

[OhNo-Really]

9. Bannon's reported 20 hour visit with team Mueller could have been fruitful

can you imagine the rage he must be simmering? From head brainiac to nadda, nothing

Bannished Bannon wanted to blow up "the system"

He wins either way.....in his insular world

20 hours. breakfast, lunch, and dinner
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-bannon-interview-mueller-investigation-20180215-story.html

[Leghorn21]

10. Sloppy Steve, lil Ricky Gates, dumbass just busted in his I wasnt running until

2016” lie...helluva week, helluva day, Oh!!

Ah, but excellent point, STEVE BANNON WINS, either way, ha ha!!

[OhNo-Really]

11. 2014....Let's try to keep his lies straight, k?

Putin promised there would be NO MATH!

[Leghorn21]

12. Oh, beHAVE, No!! nt!

[poboy2]

2. It helps to make a sandwich when whole loaves are left out to make it with.

(Hat tip to an SNL skit)

[JDC]

3. Because Trump and his cronies are as careless as the come

Entitled criminals who are as stupid as they are corrupt.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. One of the Watergate

Prosecutor's thinks is will be five to six years or even longer now that Treason or Subversion is entering the playing field.

[questionseverything]

6. we can't wait 5 or 6 years

I am old enough to remember dan roznankowski (probably spelled that wrong)

being arrested and drummed out of congress for using campaign funds to pay for mugs and ashtrays out of the dc gift shop to give to people that visited his office

and yet now that it is repubs we have ryan knowingly covering up for pols taking Russian money and he is still there

[Wellstone ruled]

7. As in Watergate and Iran Contra,

those who were later Prosecuted were neutralized early on.

[VMA131Marine]

5. Oh, look! There were no investigations during the 8 years of Obama

Also, wasn't one of Trump's arguments against HRC that she wouldn't be effective as POTUS since she would be under investigation from day 1. I actually think Trump would have been just as historically ineffective without the Mueller investigation.

[RandomAccess]

8. He of all people must surely realize what a threat Trump is

to our very nation -- our democratic institutions, our Constitution, our way of life, our sovereignty, our very existence.