AP SOURCE: YATES TO TESTIFY ON WARNING WHITE HOUSE ON FLYNN

[Hortensis]

7. Now, now. This isn't a trashy novel. Or Russia.

We do still have scarily pervasive investigative journalism here. And the 2016 election notwithstanding, the FBI is usually not involved in criminal activity but in investigating it. You might ask yourself how many political murders have turned up, how many senators, or just small-town mayors, have made the walk of shame in handcuffs, how many trials you've watched.

(And, no, I'm not talking about the kind of sites who reported, for the edification of malicious fools, the dozens of murders Hillary is supposed to have committed. )