I’ve suspected for a while that this ‘investigation’, and even possibly the special prosecutor, would inevitably be forced to look into impropriety in the Obama admin. The issue is joined at the hip in large part because the sources for the Trump allegations come from the Obama White House’s unmasking of wire taps.
And a Special Prosecutor has wide discretion to follow whereever the investigation leads. It would only take a few bits of testimony to force him to expand the scope into whether Obama Admin staff broke the law, and/or whether there was “collusion” with Russia (and others) on the part of the WH, the Dept of State, and the Clinton Campaign. Very often it seems that whatever the Dems are accusing their opponents of doing turns out to be what they were doing. In particular, Clinton had many dealings with Russia and Russian oligarchs - and not all of them were official State Dept business. The largest single donor to the Clinton Foundation was the Russian behind the Uranium One deal. He also paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech. And Clinton was central in bringing dozens of US tech firms into Russia’s “technology park” in Skolvoko outside Moscow, which the FBI later said was not a tech park but a sophisticated industrial espionage scheme. Turns out that every single company she arranged to transfer technology into Russia were also donors to the Clinton Foundation.
The whole “Trump+Russia” thing just feels like misdirection to me. I never did believe any of it - it made no sense that ex-KGB officer and long time strongman of Russia would need Trump to tell him where to hack, and it makes no sense that Trump the multi-billionaire capitalist would need Russia to lend support. The fact that there are a few thought leaders in the media who have been pushing this narrative for 6-9 months now without a shred of evidence feels a little desperate. And we all know, it is in the public record, that a number of key opinion makers in the media colluded directly with the Hillary campaign about which stories to write and how to write them... just another example of how the finger pointing about “Trump using Russia to create fake news” is misdirection. We know for a fact that this is what Clinton was doing with the US media.
And today with Comey claiming Lynch put pressure on him regarding the Clinton investigation, gives Mueller the fuel to take it further. If he doesn't follow up on Comey's allegations, then we know he's not doing his job. If anything, Comey should be charged with not reporting a known attempt at obstructing a Federal investigation.
Another somewhat obscure point is that the information collected by means of FISA warrants may very well be thrown out as inadmissible. This will automatically require judicial review of how and why surveillance occurred, names were unmasked and proper procedures followed. Catch 22?