But we are rapidly reaching a point where not only has Mueller found nothing but an incoming National Security Advisor guilty of nothing but some combination of stupidity and hubris–complacency might be the word, since “wire-tapping” senior officials then releasing the transcript for political purposes, then cajoling a contradiction under oath, has not traditionally been a low our intelligence/counter-intelligence apparatus would stoop to–but has begun breaking the law himself. He recently sought and received, seemingly illegally, thousands of emails he had no right to.
The thing about arcs is they can reverse. All the cannons firing at Trump can one day, at the right time, be made to fire at the foundations of the Deep State. Mueller himself can be investigated for his investigation. He can be investigated for sundry blatant conflicts of interest, for overreach, for willfully overlooking blatant violations of the law by Democrats. He can be investigated, and perhaps indicted, for failing to end the investigation outright the moment he realized that the entire thing was based on fabricated evidence created by a combination of Clinton operatives and law breaking members, and spouses of members, of the Deep State.
It is like the whole thing is on a bungy, that is getting ready to bounce back up.
Or, to use a metaphor that is a bit cliched (I did something like jiu jitsu for 7 some odd years): it is like judo, where in the classic iteration, you use the energy of your opponent against them. When you are dealing with skilled opponents, though, this almost always needs to be through a feint. You have to appear to give them an opening, something they want, to which they commit too much energy. This energy then becomes your means of taking their balance and throwing them.
I have seen calls already for a Special Prosecutor to investigate Uranium One. Since these people have no reasonable bounds, I would think Mueller himself, and everyone under him, could equally be objects of investigation. Applying the same standards applied to Flynn, Mueller might even be an indictable criminal.
Unless I am missing something major, it would seem to me he himself would be prudent to give people reasons to stop asking about and digging into the Steele dossier that started the whole thing, and why he brought on board so many people who were hyperpartisan, and plainly guilty of serious derelictions of duty.
It has been perhaps an act of genius for Trump to let this whole thing play out, to distract and obsess the Democrats, and ultimately–after the smoke clears, after Mueller has done his best and found nothing–to provide a clear means of unmasking a vast mass of traitors in our midst.
It is perhaps the case that the “insurance policy” was a terrible idea, even if it was illegal, and indictable.