Things that make you go "hmmmm....."

Yesterday's raid on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen raises an awful lot of questions, to put it mildly.  First of all, if Robert Mueller is actually investigating the possibility (impossibility, really) of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, exactly how does the non-issue of Trump's alleged dalliance with Stephanie Clifford play into this?  Exactly why did Mueller take enough evidence regarding the matter to make a referral?  As Mr. D. notes, this looks like a reason for firing a LOT of people in the FBI and DOJ.  There is no plausible reason that Mueller should have been doing this, and no less than Alan Dershowitz agrees. The only possibility, really, is if Rod Rosenstein made the bounds of Mueller's investigation impossibly broad, which is in itself a violation of rules governing special counsels.


(and to the obvious rejoinder, L'affaire Lewinsky, remember that that was drug in when Paula Jones sued Clinton for harassment--a suit that was tangentially related to the Whitewater investigation)


Then we have the question of why the federal attorney's office in New York picked up a case with such clear implications of the violation of attorney-client privilege, and when there are a lot of other far more important cases to take there.


To be blunt, I have to wonder who's really running the country.  Somehow it doesn't seem like it's our elected officials anymore.