Then, 22+ hours after publication, Mueller's spokesman writes a short vague statement.

The problem is on Mueller's side.

Regardless of the story and the backlash.

My 2 cents.

All this unknown drives me batty.

Just let it happen, people.

Fuck.

years, when Fitzgerald investigated, then dropped, possible indictments of Dick Cheney and others for war crimes. And I remember that he got set up by antagonists to make it appear that he was filing false reports, and was summarily discredited. It's possible that Leopold sets himself up for traps by getting too far ahead of his stories.

He's also admitted to some problems of his own which got in the way of his reporting.

I do think big stories like this can give a reporter a rush of excitement and it can be like a drug. Leopold has done some worthwhile stories, but stuff like this really ruins credibility.

get in the investigation and -- assuming proper -- take action against trump.

trump is doing too much direct damage to country to delay. And while we dick around with the worthless POS, needed legislation is being ignored.

But I agree that something preliminary should be given to Rod Rosenstein. At this point, time is working against us.

My concern is that whatever gets released will get filed away to never see the light of day.

Cohen's testimony, if he doesn't change his mind, might give a sense of urgency and with public pressure they won't have no choice but to release the report.

To me, what matters most is we thought we had clear evidence of a felony and now there may not be. I thought this might give Mueller a little short term credit with the GOP, but that won't last long. Likewise some more people will say "fake news", but I don't think it changes that narrative very much for one case which got disputed quickly.

To get rid of Trump early, we'll need good evidence, public airing of that evidence and then public opinion turning enough to get republican votes in the senate. I'm disappointed that we might not have evidence for suborning perjury. In terms of public opinion by the time we get the public airing of whatever evidence there is for removal, not many will remember this episode.

The reporters apparently got something wrong. I agree with those that say it's important to pursue that since the press has to be accurate, but I don't think the accuracy of this one event changes the odds of removal. I think we will find out eventually what they go wrong so I'm not focused on that right now. More power to anyone who wants to suss that out.

If the press keeps getting stories wrong that would be a problem.

The conclusions reached were not denied by Mueller, just the evidence used. I would take it that it's just Muellers way of muzzling the press until he's done. Now they will all be afraid to conjecture. Of course, it's pretty obvious that the lying to Congress was orchestrated. The real question is if Trump was directly involved in it. This would be hard to prove unless another party was involved who talked, or their were other evidence. Otherwise it's he said-she said. By the way, it's all you can say about any news article-it could be right. We may never know because we may never see the whole report.

The problem is when even one thing is wrong, the entire story is damaged along with the reputation of the reporters involved. Buzzfeed itself could have credibility problems as well.

Either way, I'm hoping that Cohen does appear before congress and this matter can be dealt with one way or the other.