https://oig.justice.gov/press/2017/2017-01-12.pdf
Thing people keep missing. It might just be Comey,and the Obama White House, not Trump, who is the focus of the special council
Yep. I think the reasons they are backing off now are items two and three. All of the sudden the scope of the investigation has expanded from the narrow effort to get Trump to a broad effort to get anybody engaged in wrongdoing of any sort. And it seems pretty open-ended. Like having McCain passing that bogus dossier off. Like covering the illegal unmasking and spying on Americans. Anything related to the Russia-collusion claims, even remotely.