If I was hired to do the job of the investigators in Washington and did what they've been doing, I'd likely have been fired long ago.

I am not a fan of government, especially big government. I am not a fan of propaganda and any of you that have read my works here on steemit are likely very much aware of this.

For those who may not know I did not vote for Hillary or Trump. I often find myself defending Trump solely due to the blatant hypocrisy and very obvious bias of the media. I believe in accountability. This extends to Trump yes, but it also extends to Hillary, McCain, the Media, and anyone else. I do not endorse a caste system or double standards.

The thing I found myself thinking about today after listening to a few news shows today was "How long does it take?". They trot out a new person they are interviewing about Russia on a once a week, or once every other week basis. They still have not found any actionable "evidence". Let's be clear this Russia snipe hunt has been going on for 9 months now. It began within a couple of days of the end of the election when the media and establishment somewhat recovered from those initial days of obvious panic and no clear idea what to do. It reminded me of a chicken with its head cut off.

What is really bouncing around in my head today is how long I'd be likely to keep my job if I was as slow and inefficient as these guys. Let's interview a person here, and a person there, and string it out, and spend huge amounts of money. This is pure idiocy if their goal is actually what they claim it is.

However, I don't believe that is their goal. I believe their goal is to keep the focus on this issue for as long as possible, keep uncertainty fueled, and to string along these non-issues for as long as popular so they hinder and slow dealing with actual issues. There is some indication that this has been the plan as then come the next elections for Senators and Congressmen they are hoping the Democrats will regain some seats. It might work, if the American public is naive. For the slowing and ineffectiveness is as much the Democratic parties fault as it is some of the entrenched Republicans. The people that actually MIGHT do something find that pretty challenging if not impossible to do when these leeches in both parties that have been around far too long seek to impede them.

The fact we can waste so much time and money on these things is pretty infuriating. I tell people that the only thing government is actually good at producing is waste, and war. This is taking the waste aspect of government to an entirely new level.

If your job was to review evidence would you gather a potential witness list quickly? Would you then make arrangements to interview these witnesses as quickly as possible? Would you string it along for 9 months?

If you found no evidence to back your initial probe, would you then wildly cast your vision about until you could imagine some other angle?

How many times would you repeat this seeking of some other avenue?

Idiocy. To me that is what it is. Pure idiocy if it were intended to do what it publicly claims to be doing.

So if they are not idiots, then we must assume that what they are publicly claiming is not actually the purpose...

---

EDIT: For you techy geeks like me out there. The government is a less efficient form of TCP, when what we want is UDP.