[Basket_of_Deplorables]

What would it look like if such an investigation was already underway?

Consider this:

1. Sessions and Trump (and Rosenstein and Mueller) have infused the justice department with a serious-as-a-heart-attack “no leaks” policy, with the threat of certain and immediate prison time. Everyone affected know they will set an example when it happens. Therefore, they are not leaking.

2. Comey and his sycophants are (still) planting “anonymous” stories, from outside the justice department, and the msm still plays along. Podesta, Sid Vicious, Lynch, Comey, Brennan, any and all. MSM calls them “officials” but they no longer are.

3. The email stating Lynch made assurances she would shut down the Hillary investigation is real, and Sessions has it. There is another one planted as a diversion that is BS, that has been debunked, but even Comey said recently the real one exists.

4. Comey is under investigation for both leaking and obstruction of justice. He may have been given partial immunity already in exchange for spilling the beans on Lynch. Hence his incriminating-but-not-incriminating remarks recently about Lynch—queasy feeling...not leaking, but showing he has flipped sides—publicly.

5. Rosenstein, Mueller, Sessions, are conducting a tightly held secret investigation. Perhaps assembling a topgun team of hand picked leak-proof patriots. Many may be democrats...

What would all that look like to us? What would it look like if such an investigation was already underway?

EXACTLY what it looks like right now. Complete Silence. Even Trump is out of the loop.

The only hope of the criminal cabal being investigated is that it somehow gets shut down. Like getting rid of Sessions, Mueller, and Rosenstein. While sowing even more fake news and stoking internal food fights, so calls come out from the Republicans to fire them all. Massive amounts of smoke are being blown every day to sow doubts and confuse in a last ditch effort to get everyone to say with the same voice, “Shut it down!”

It would all look to us EXACTLY like what is happening right now.

IMHO.

[DouglasKC]

t would all look to us EXACTLY like what is happening right now.

Great analysis!

[The Westerner]

Like your objective analysis. It's comforting to pretend that men hired to pursue justice against real criminals are quietly going about their work. We're all on edge from the mostly negative news that friends, old classmates, colleagues, family and lovers have ended relationships as if the US is in a declared war. It is painful to get rejected for simply voting Trump when for 8 years we kept our opinions under wraps to keep these relationships. The same feeling is not reciprocated now. And it's hard to figure out why our virtuous behavior under Obama means nothing and voting for Trump signifies what—a moral failing? To be viewed as an enemy who no longer shares the love of American ideals? Dumbfounding.