1. The original FBI investigation seemed fine. It really wasn't a big deal IMO.
2. The Mueller investigation was only necessary once Trump fired Comey. Trump is just an incredible fucking moron
3. I'm not sure what you mean by this.
4. I imagine the Manafort stuff would have been caught anyway. Having a Special Counsel just gave more weight to everything IMO
5. I agree here. I don't know enough about this to give any reasonable reforms though
6. I actually liked Twitter's approach this election. They simply said "fuck it, you can't have any political ads." We probably need regulation where the ad says "Paid for by Terrorists for Bernie" and it needs to take up 25% of space. That organization must register for the FEC otherwise the distributor (i.e. FB, Youtube ,etc.) gets fined.

by #3 i mean something like a congressionally handled bipartisan fact finding investigation, rather than a cash sinking criminally focused investigation. basically "what happened" vs "who can we put in jail".

Comey was proven to be a liar and a crook. Should of been jailed.



Trump just pardoned Flynn.

I don't think Congress is capable of that anymore. Just look at Nunes vs. Schiff. Look at what happened with impeachment.

IMO, the Mueller report did a pretty good job communicating the "what happened" portion. At the end of the day, they Special Counsel referred a lot of the criminal activity to SDNY and other DOJ areas.

It did a good job of communicating that like a sledgehammer does a good job of hammering a penny nail.

at the end of the day Manafort could have been sunk without it, obstruction was never really going to stick, and we could have gotten a stamp on "russia trolled us, but it didnt sink the election" for a way cheaper price tag.

I agree that it could have been cheaper. Had Trump not interfered, it would have been your standard run of the mill FBI investigation.

Im sure its just my idealist nature, but i really think a body like congress/senate is the right pick for this kind of thing. the place the legislature has fallen to is sad, maybe its unrealistic, but from a civics standpoint it should be "the people" looking into it. not some closed door body like the FBI. if criminal behavior is found, pass it to the FBI.

Congress (House or Senate) investigating something like that just doesnt work. In practice, it violates separation of powers since the president will almost always be the de facto leader of his party and almost always hold soft power over "his" senators and congresspeople. (He can threaten to prop up a primary challenger, or threaten to withdraw access to the WH from dissenters and weaken their power/influence over policy this way, etc.)

Conversely, if the opposition party controls Congress, such an investigation will predictably devolve into a partisan circus which is more concerned with landing blows on the president than uncovering the truth.

Congress will always be compromised by partisan interests and personal career considerations of all sorts. You're never gonna get a clean, neutral investigation out of it. In theory, a neutral, objective agency like the FBI is the right place for an investigation like this. The true crux in the Trump/Comey/Mueller/impeachment saga was the fact that the FBI itself had become compromised by partisanship, that its leadership was clearly working against the elected president.





More generally speaking, it is a huge problem that the federal bureaucracy is increasingly aligned with one of the two parties instead of being nonpartisan. And as the Trump years have shown, they are increasingly willing to flex their muscles to undermine a lawfully elected president who wants to steer policy in a direction they dont like. Many career bureaucrats were flouting the will of the American people, as expressed by the result of the presidential election. This is a really concerning precedent. Strange that all of you who were constantly worried about Trump eroding democratic norms and institutions never talked about this kind of norm erosion and undemocratic behavior.

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