You are correct...if I knew how to change the title of this post I would. Not questioning validity of the investigation...agree it needed to occur. My point was really that so many people are elatedly CONVINCED that some collusion happened when there is almost no real evidence anything occurred. They just refer to it hopefully in broad terms. All these perjury crimes are either unrelated (Manafort/Gates) or due to stupidity of unnecessarily lying about things that weren't even crimes (Flynn/Papadoppoulos).
agree it needed to occur
based on what?
I don't think the evidence supports it at this point in the game but there was a time when there was a reasonable appearance that the Trump campaign may have dealt with the Russians in an effort to get dirt on HRC. Also, the real issue in all of this was Trump asking Comey to "let it go" with Micheal Flynn and asking for loyalty. In our government, agency heads are loyal to the Constitution not the sitting President. I personally believe this was more a product of Trump's coming from the business world and being new to government. This turned out to be a bad ask by Trump since Flynn actually had some shady stuff going on and then foolishly lied about meeting with the Russians which was not even illegal. However, I think the DOJ should have conducted the investigation and this special counsel has been milking this for WAY too long.