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I’ve been thinking a lot about the Wizard of Oz this past day. nytimes.com/2019/07/24/us/…
The country asked Bob Mueller to do a nigh impossible job: Explore a possible conspiracy that, if established, would rank among history’s most consequential intrigues. Lead this criminal investigation into your boss, who (absurdly) can’t be charged with a crime no matter what...
Don’t talk about anyone who isn’t charged, but explain to us the higher mysteries of our resiliently secretive, fraudster president—despite his present immunity from charges. Clean out, somehow, a White House filled to the moldings with corruption
The sheer enormity of the task conveyed a presumption of great abilities on the person chosen to do it.
You get a troubling set of questions when you start wondering about the man behind the curtain. What if 2y of almost perfect silence in the face of daily savaging from the WH represented not supreme discipline in service of a far-seeing plan, but paralysis in the absence of one?
