And so, in 2016, began the F.B.I.’s epic investigation — and the attempt by journalists to track it. Making call after call to lawyers for those under investigation — and to their friends and frenemies, rivals and business associates. If an investigation is a jigsaw puzzle, the mosaic of the two-year inquiry by Mr. Mueller remains incomplete, at least for the public and the press. We have seen major parts laid out in staggering detail in the 199 charges he has filed against 34 people and three companies — the only way Mr. Mueller, 74, a former F.B.I. In a polarized country, with different news outlets offering divergent partisan spins, different factions fill the Mueller vacuum with radically different realities.

Source: New York Times March 22, 2019 03:00 UTC