When I get discouraged I remember: WE ARE NOT ALONE.

It can be agony to wait between indictments and pleas. So this is what I remember when it feels too long. What Robert Mueller is running is basically a major mob prosecution, a complicated financial and political multi-national conspiracy -- and major mob prosecutions take time.

Robert Mueller has only been on the job since last May and, according to CNN, one of the first things he did was greatly expand the investigation. Did we want it all wrapped up in December, with a couple of guilty pleas to smaller felonies, the way Trump wanted? Of course we didn’t. They hoped we were getting a window-dressing prosecution. We aren’t. We are getting a thorough, methodic, witness-flipping, dotting-every-i and crossing-every-t prosecution, from the man who successfully brought down John Gotti and his mob -- and happens to be an expert in cybercrime. And with all that you and I suspect about Donald Trump, that’s exactly the kind of prosecution we want Trump and his campaign to have.

Robert Mueller is a rule-follower, whose sense of duty was literally drilled into him during his heroic service in the Marines. His only major personal flaw, according to numerous interviews, appears to be that he sometimes is a “martinet” – he pushes his people too hard. This time around, for his last major act, he has also assembled a crack team with experience at everything from mob prosecutions, to cybercrime, to Watergate. And you can bet he is pushing them -- and they are pushing themselves.

But we Americans, and Mueller and his team, are not alone. Since at least 2015, multiple foreign intelligences have been alarmed enough about Trump to be passing along information about him. Unfortunately, it took us too long to share their alarm. But they are no doubt still trying to help. And not simply out of altruism. They’re doing it because they know that their own democracies depend at least in part on getting the Trump infection in America under control – and stamping it out before it reaches their shores.

So it isn’t just U.S. intelligence that is motivated to help Mueller. It’s British intelligence, French Intelligence, Australian Intelligence, Canadian Intelligence, Dutch Intelligence, German Intelligence, and more.

TAKE HEART and KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT.


This was a Newsweek piece from January, 2017, and I’m sure it’s just as true today.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-putin-russia-interfered-presidential-election-541302

Officials in Western Europe say they are so dismayed, they now feel compelled to gather intelligence on a man who is set to become the next president of the United States. According to a Western intelligence source, at least one allied nation is currently conducting intelligence operations in the United States, collecting details on officials surrounding Trump and executives in his company, the Trump Organization; the source, who works in government, expressed disbelief that such an effort had been deemed essential.

Moscow is seen as a direct threat to the interests of NATO and other American allies—both in its aggressive efforts to reshape global alliances and for its power to damage Western Europe, which obtains almost 40 percent of its natural gas from Russia. Should the United States, the last remaining superpower, tilt its policies away from NATO to the benefit of Russia, the alliance between America and Western Europe could be transformed in unprecedented ways. And so, for perhaps the first time since World War II, countries in Western Europe fear that the American election of Trump could trigger events that imperil their national security and irreparably harm the alliances that have kept the continent safe for decades.