Speaking of tunnel vision in the special counsel investigation. I do miss many, many topics about and questions to be put forth.

None on the salient details of the MI-6 Steele dossier.

It's just about Russians, obstruction of justice, none about the Israel lobby and the Mercers, Adelsons, Singer and the bots originating with Cambridge Analytica. None about the Ukrainian hackers or alt-right global organizations influencing the election outcome.

What a waste of time of all "progressive" bloggers digging into every bit of gossip spread by fake news reporters.

Mueller took the logical route by attacking the key business associates in the Trump campaign ... easy enough to find plenty of dirt and get leverage for his real investigation.

'Sapere aude'

It's not clear to me how many of the above questions actually lead to clearly impeachable offences. I'm sure the Trump lawyer present would object to almost all on the grounds that they are just digging for political dirt and are outside the remit of a special prosecutor charged with investigating very specific charges of collusion with a foreign power for political advantage in a particular election.

I have no doubt that Trump had all sorts of dodgy business dealings with reprehensible regimes prior to his election. That's a feature, rather than a bug of US business more generally and Trump can probably plausibly distance himself from most of it by blaming various subordinates. Are crimes committed before election impeachable?

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Judge Wants to See Unredacted Memos Directing Mueller Probe

Judge T.S. Ellis III gave Justice Department attorneys two weeks to provide him with complete copies of two memos written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, one from May 2017, and the other, from August, that lay out the scope and ground rules for the investigation.
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For instance, [US Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben] said, "in the May 17 order, because of the implications involving people under investigation who may never be charged, we could not convey everything there."

Other specifics not yet seen in the memo were conveyed in face-to-face meetings with Rosenstein, however. [Judge T.S.] Ellis again insisted on the need for records to prove the prosecutor's intent.

"We don't want anyone with unfettered power. That includes you and the other attorneys and special counsel and that also includes the president of the United States," Ellis said.

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