George Rebane
Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is charged with investigating the Russian affair with last year’s election. Specifically, allegations that Russia interfered and/or impacted our election, and more allegations that person or persons on Team Trump criminally colluded with Russia to achieve God knows what. There is no evidence of a crime having been committed save the unmasking of former national security adviser Flynn’s name as the subject of a federal investigation.
The question that comes to my mind regarding this kind of investigations is at what point do they stop – if they find no prosecutable evidence, when will the investigation be terminated? It is never understood that since there was an allegation there must have been a crime, and therefore we presume evidence exists to indicate/prove such a crime. And therefore we’ll keep looking until we find it or run out of money to continue investigating. This is not Director Mueller’s charge, so can we set a date?
The ending point question would be moot if Mueller would be investigating a bank robbery caught on security cameras. There we would know that a crime was committed and the investigation is attempting to identify and find the culprits. And in that case no one would presume to ask the investigators to specify an end time for their investigation. But that is not the case with Director Mueller.
So I come back to my question, which apparently is of no interest to the press – how long will we continue to search for what we don’t know that we don’t know? At a minimum, could the DoJ at least specify the conditions or criteria for ending an investigation that has failed to find any evidence confirming the allegations of criminality?
[10jun17 update]
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