Nicholas Kristof reviews the questions about the Trump campaign that can be answered only by an independent special prosecutor who conducts a nonpartisan investigation, if that is possible.
Was there collusion between the Trump team and the Putin regime?
“There are a lot of dots here, and the challenge is how to connect them. Be careful: Democrats should avoid descending into the kind of conspiratorial mind-set that led some Republicans to assume Hillary Clinton was a criminal about to be indicted or to conjure sex slaves belonging to her in a Washington pizza restaurant. Coincidences happen, and I think there has been too much focus on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, not enough on Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager. Here are 10 crucial dots:
“1. President Trump and his aides have repeatedly and falsely denied ties to Russia. USA Today counted at least 20 denials. In fact, we now know that there were contacts by at least a half-dozen people in the Trump circle with senior Russian officials.
“2. There’s no obvious reason for all these contacts. When Vice President Mike Pence was asked on Jan. 15 if there had been contacts between the Trump campaign and Kremlin officials, he answered: “Of course not. Why would there be?” We don’t know either, Mr. Vice President.
“3. There were unexplained communications between a Trump Organization computer server and Russia’s Alfa Bank, which has ties to President Vladimir Putin. These included 2,700 “look-up” messages to initiate communications, and some investigators found all this deeply suspicious. Others thought there might be an innocent explanation, such as spam. We still don’t know….
“7. A Trump associate, Roger Stone, appeared to have had advance knowledge of Russia’s disclosures through WikiLeaks of Hillary Clinton campaign emails. As early as August, two months before her campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails were released, Stone tweeted: “Trust me, it will soon [be] Podesta’s time in the barrel.” In October, six days before a dump of Clinton campaign emails, Stone tweeted: “HillaryClinton is done. #Wikileaks.”
There is no way to answer these questions unless there is an investigation. The investigation must be independent.
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Rachel Maddow did several reasons shows asking wonderful questions. Her tema does incredible investigative journalism, and I urge you to find the show where Trump’s connection to Russia & Deutches Bank is discussed.
And there is this one: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/4/1640165/-Rachel-Maddow-connected-another-dot-last-night?detail=email&link_id=3&can_id=47594dc7343bb19ac4f7621b50e457f8&source=email-angry-trump-removes-priebus-and-bannon-from-air-force-one-manifest&email_referrer=angry-trump-removes-priebus-and-bannon-from-air-force-one-manifest&email_subject=angry-trump-removes-priebus-and-bannon-from-air-force-one-manifest “On her show last night, Rachel brought up a dot that I hadn’t even seen in the puzzle before. She asked a very simple question, “How did we end up with transcripts of the Mike Flynn phone calls to the Russian ambassador”? It is both legal, and standard practice for US intelligence agents to monitor foreign nationals, so they do. But there’s a loophole there. It’s legal to monitor a foreign national’s phone calls, but still illegal to monitor a US citizen. If they’re following protocol, they were required to hang up and disconnect their phone surveillance the moment they identified an American citizen on the line. So, how did we end up with a transcript of their conversation?”
All propaganda – #3 is ridiculous – any investigator who thinks DNS pings are deeply suspicious should
remain anonymous. What is not being covered, as far as I can see, is all the info exposed by WikiLeaks earlier this week. Combine that with FBI Director Comey’s request to DOJ regarding Trump’s leak allegation and you may have the real story.
The real story is that Trump should get the needle. All the worms are starting to run for cover . The next thing they will be squealing like pigs. The only plank that Trump showed any interest in ,in the Republican Platform was the one that would have armed Ukraine being removed. That little piglet is starting to squeal . Innocent people don’t lie often. Every other day we have a retraction.
Would you like to see a golden shower video
I would also add Trumps refusal to release his his tax returns as an item on this list, since not releasing them leaves unanswered a whole set of questions and assumptions like:
what is he hiding? If nothing then just release them.
Connect the dots this is beginning to look like a Pollock with all drips leading to Trump.
Please let’s drop it and worry about education, especially putting a stop to Common Core.
George,
With a man in the White House who hates public education, it is difficult to ignore him.
When will he get rid of Common Core? I predict on the 12th of Never.