Collusion

When Special Prosecutor Ken Starr was assigned to investigate the Clintons in the Whitewater real estate deal he found very little but this led to the discovery of the affair with Monica Lewinsky and the now infamous blue dress. Without this smoking gun Monica would have been sent to the ash heap of history and Clinton would have gone scot free. The impeachment process that followed was a mistake and the accusers paid a price and Clinton ended up with a 65% approval rating. The affair which led to lying under oath caused Clinton millions of dollars in legal fees and the loss of his law license plus personal humiliation which was certainly punishment enough but to impeach based on this seems now, with the benefit of hind sight, a bit much. It was politics run amok and now it appears that Robert Mueller is about to go down the same path. All sorts of shenanigans are being exposed by various individuals along with some questionable activities by some government agencies. Where ever this ends up it will likely be far afield from the original investigation into Russian collusion in the election. The Clinton investigation lasted over four years and the Mueller case will be even longer especially if Trump is re-elected.