Mueller filing: their ongoing criminal investigation consists of multiple lines

[pnwmom]

of legally-interconnected inquiry -- and unsealing court fillings would jeopardize the investigation.

This goes against the DT/Giuliani claim that the investigation is close to winding up.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/23/mueller-media-secret-filings-607111

While lawyers for President Donald Trump have suggested in recent weeks that the inquiry appears to be winding down, Mueller’s prosecutors submitted a court filing on Wednesday that painted a very different picture of an investigation that is moving forward on multiple fronts and could be jeopardized by premature disclosure of the records sought by news outlets.

“The Special Counsel’s investigation is not a closed matter, but an ongoing criminal investigation with multiple lines of non-public inquiry,” prosecutors wrote in a brief submitted to U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson. “The investigation consists of multiple lines of inquiry within the overall scope of the Special Counsel’s authority. Many aspects of the investigation are factually and legally interconnected: they involve overlapping courses of conduct, relationships, and events, and they rely on similar sources, methods, and techniques. The investigation is not complete and its details remain non-public.”

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“The dates and volume of warrants also reveal the evolution and direction of investigative interests,” Mueller attorneys Michael Dreeben, Andrew Weissmann and Adam Jed wrote. “Making this information public while an investigation is ongoing could pose a clear and ominous threat to the investigation’s integrity.”

[BigmanPigman]

1. Rosenstein is playing the game to stall for time for Mueller

and allow him to continue his investigation. The moron will continue pulling his delay, derail and distract BS until he leaves office.

"Making this information public while an investigation is ongoing could pose a clear and ominous threat to the investigation’s integrity.”

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Rump's M.O.: keep throwing as much sand in the gears as possible.

It's usually worked for him in his crooked private-sector life, and now he's got a consigliere who has probably had lots of sand tossed in his gears back when he was useful, so he knows the process.