One path for Mueller to take in light of controversial new Acting AG's role

Frank Figliuzzi is a former FBI Assistant Director who is frequently a guest commentator on MSNBC news programs.  He's very impressive in the sharpness and depth of his knowledge and reasoning about the present state of the FBI and its relationship to President Trump.

A recent article in Newsweek by Brendon Cole featured Figliuzzi's theory of what Robert Mueller may do -- or have already prepared to do -- given Trump's new appointee as Acting Attorney General, who has clearly been chosen for the job primarily to do Trump's bidding on Mueller and his investigation and report.

Here are some excerpts of that article:

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" . . . .  It is not clear what role [Matt] Whitaker will play in overseeing the inquiry, . . .  Democrats fear that hostility to the probe might spur him to sabotage it . . . 

" . . . But Figliuzzi told the anchor of The 11th Hour, Brian Williams, he had 'a theory' that Mueller has already indicated what he is going to do.  'I think he's ready to indict some folks and through those indictments will tell the story of what he's found against the president.

"'I'm not saying he's indicting the president [Figliuzzi continued].   I'm saying there's a middle ground where he tells us the story, locks it into the court system by indicting others, then files a report with Whitaker,' he added."

Author Cole says that Figliuzzi "suggested that Mueller knows his days are numbered and so would act soon.  I think the Whitaker appointment steps up the timeline and I think perhaps if Mueller sticks to the strategy of telling us the story through indictments . . . that he'll speak to us soon, very soon, with additional indictments, perhaps that tell the story of a corrupt president."

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Well, that makes more sense to me than anything else I've heard or read.   And I've seen Figliuzzi on TV enough times to be very impressed by his thinking and convinced that he knows what he's talking about.   Not that he's informed by Mueller -- but that he knows enough of how someone of Mueller's caliber in the prosecutorial role would think and act in this situation.

I feel much better about the preservation and ultimate public availability of the results of the Mueller investigation.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ralph