The whole thing is nefarious:Ex-CIA spy says Trump Jr. fell head first into a classic Russian trap

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17. So agree! "Follow the trail of dead Russians."

Former FBI agent Clint Watts's advice to Senate intelligence committee.

From Rachel Maddow interview in May:

MARTIN: That's a provocative statement that you gave the committee. What did you mean when you advised senators to, quote, "follow the trail of dead Russians"?

WATTS: From the Russian context, if they were meddling in the U.S. election and it was through financial relationships, maybe inducements that they wanted to push, they would try to close those off. And if you look over the past year, really year and a half, you've seen a string of senior Russian officials that have died, some of them obviously of natural causes but some of them under suspicious circumstances.

And so when I would be looking at this, that's where I would focus is why are these people dying strangely? And which one of those might've had financial connections?"

This was talking about possible illicit financial involvements with Russia, but I just thought I'd throw that in. One of the suspects for leaking the "Jr. meeting" is actually Russia also. But agree Mueller and his ferociously competent team are on it, and the indictments and trials will be horrifying, disgusting, and fascinating.