Obfuscation?
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken, July 26, 1920
Some evidence is voluntarily provided. Some is seized.
Didn’t trust Manafort did they? 
Anyone have knowledge about HRCs forthcoming book due in September?
Trying to inundate the investigators with paper? Used to work–I’ve tried it myself a number of times. But not going to do much good with today’s document-handling software.
I wonder how many of those documents are even legible, what with stains from ketchup, KFC grease, and Diet Coke.
You mean, other than Hillary?
Hold it, they’re trying to find out if the Steele dossier was funded by the russians colluding with Hillary? Well played.
20,000 pages?
“Hide IN Plain Sight”, the sequel.
Being released September 12, 2017, #1 bestseller in Civics and Citizenship at Amazon.
Yeah, they long for the good old days when Fawn Hall was enough.
And she got coffee for the men, too
The trump campaign did not impress anybody as being bureaucraticly complex… It would be my guess that there was not much in the way of internal memos that can be used to recreate whatever decision tree there was that led up to discussions with the Russians. My guess is that the 20000 pages that this discovery request yielded were the result of a very imprecise query of the trump email server and most of the pages are either duplicates of conversation threads or outright spam that happened to hit on whatever search term they used.
The 20000 page claim in the article sounds good but it doesn’t actually mean that there was any meat on those pages.
Mission Accomplished! (This time for real)
HT to GWB…
You can bet the White House carefully screened every damned page given the committee with one thought in mind: “How much legal jeopardy do we risk holding this one back?”
Assuming there are some highly embarrassing and illegal acts Trump wants to remain hidden the default route is certainly “Yeah, that one can go in the ‘They ain’t getting that’ pile.”
Mencken also knew what was ahead of us when he coined the word “booboisie.”
a segment of the general public composed of uneducated, uncultured persons.
Stephanopoulos: “Are there any ties between Mr. Trump, you or your campaign and Putin and his regime?”
Manafort: “No, there are not. That’s absurd. And, you know, there’s no basis to it.”
And here are the first 20,000 pages that document our complete lack of ties.
No wonder we never hear from Paul anymore…
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The special counsel, Robert Mueller, just called Donald Trump to tell the President that he was “the most innocent person ever,” Trump told reporters on Thursday.
“It was the middle of the afternoon, and he just picked up the phone to say how innocent I was,” Trump said. “He said I was the most innocent person he’d ever come across, and maybe in history.”
“He said he had been over all of the evidence and that he and his staff would spend hours just looking at each other in amazement at about how unbelievably innocent I was,” he said.
Trump said that he asked Mueller why, in his opinion, the media had reported so many stories about his campaign colluding with Russians. “Bob said to me, ‘Are you talking about the failing New York Times and CNN?’ ” Trump reported. “ ‘They have been very unfair to you. They are bad (or sick) people. Sad!’ That’s what Bob said to me.”
The conversation wound down with a series of “pleasantries,” Trump said, with Mueller complimenting him on the size of his 2016 victory, including his enormous win in New Hampshire.