"Crime in Progress" by Simpson and Fritsch - I pre-ordered it.

[triron]

Wow is all I can say about what Rachel's interview revealed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Going over to Amazon right now to order the Kindle version.

It sounds fascinating.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It popped up on my Kindle about a half hour ago, and I started reading. OMG!

It’s even worse than we thought.

[triron]

3. Afraid to start reading this late. Need to get sleep.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Me too.

But now that it's morning and I'm awake I'll start in on it again. What hit me last night is how they were tying up so many threads of Trump's corruption, not all of which are related to the instant Ukraine scandal, but seem to be the big back-story. Stay tuned!

[triron]

6. I think it's all one giant web of a story.

Some day history will know a lot more than we do now.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. In the book they are following the money.

Mueller didn't, and I wonder why. Did he think it was out of his purview, or was he stopped?

[triron]

9. I thought Mueller stopped short in several ways. Why?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Good question.

Initially, I assumed he was just taking a strict and literal view of what he was assigned to do. I don't want to put on a tinfoil hat, but the fact that he didn't follow the money now makes me wonder whether he was blocked somehow from that line of inquiry.

[Captain Zero]

5. A criminal doesn't attain the presidency without plans to crime his way through it

from the VERY START.

The US Treasury is his big unguarded piggy bank. Am I right?

[triron]

7. Putin had plans anyway.