We Still Don’t Know What Mueller Knows

Walter Shapiro: “In a world with more leaks than a rotting rowboat, it is hard to get your mind around the reality that the Mueller investigation doesn’t leak. Everything that we know about his investigation comes from Paul Manafort’s trial; more than 30 other indictments and guilty pleas; reports of subpoenas by the grand jury; self-serving comments by mouthpieces like Rudy Giuliani; and Trump’s desperate, caged-man, all-caps tweets.”

“That sounds ample, except none of this reveals Mueller’s timetable, how much he has learned about the president’s conduct and business dealings and whether the independent counsel will issue a final report recommending impeachment.”

“In a sense, it is akin to how Pluto (which should still be a planet) was anticipated before it was actually observed in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh’s telescope. Pluto’s existence had already been theorized because of a wobble in the orbit of Neptune.”

“What we are witnessing now are only the perturbations caused by the Mueller investigation. But the hard leak-proof reality is that we simply don’t know where it is all leading. Yet.”