Why this investigation is moving faster than investigations in the past?

[kentuck]

Watergate was a different time. There were no cable television channels. There was no Facebook or Twitter or Internet. Information is gathered a thousand times quicker nowadays, because of our technology. Individuals information can be gathered from Google or Wikileaks. A lot of time is saved with these new creations.

[PubliusEnigma]

1. Because Trump and his goons are rank amateurs. Being rich doesn't make you a good crook.

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!

[yellerpup]

2. Attorneys General from several states

have been unwinding evidence on money laundering and Mueller brought a lot of them to pitch in. My personal opinion is that by cooperating and sharing information they figured the puzzle out.

[BigmanPigman]

3. They just said the same thing about

the AG in NY working so closely with Mueller and how they can manipulate the investigation as well as possible pardons.

[yellerpup]

6. It has been an organized crime investigation.

The mobsters aren't new faces. The Donald talks like a mobster, but he isn't; he's just a useful idiot for them the same as he is for the Russians.

[CrispyQ]

8. I'll bet the international community of LE is helping too.

The Con has pissed a lot of people off over the decades & even more, recently. I hope he gets everything he deserves.

[yellerpup]

11. I do, too.

He's going to bite it so hard and fall so far he won't believe it. Sooner rather than later, fingers crossed.

[Not Ruth]

4. Computers

Everything happens faster these days

[4139]

5. My prediction in July was he would essentially be done in October, indictments November

The FBI started the investigation July2016, and when Mueller to over he loaded up with lawyer-investigators at an incredibly fast pace.

[L. Coyote]

7. Because most of the first year it was in secret, so it seems that way.

Watergate drug out in the press for a long time before Congress got to work on it. Nixon's DoJ was the target, not the cops.

One of the differences is wew have better Constitutional governance now. The President cannot just step in and corrupt institutions to his will. Nixon had years in office and still could not control the Attorney General. Reagan took a lesson as did Trump, you pick a co-conspirator as your AG.

[Orrex]

9. Because top-grade fertilizer burns faster

[procon]

10. Its the digital age. Communications via snail mail and couriers that took weeks,

but it is now done in hours. Tedious research that required armies of staffers doing manual searches through hardcopy files or microfiche archives could drag on for months, but precision search parameters can pull out key elements in minutes from massive digital databases anywhere in the world. Even simple interviews and meetings might take days to organize and implement, and required physically travelling for staff or suspects and their lawyers, plus recording equipment, plus lodging, meals, etc., but today interviews can be conducted live via the internet in minutes.

[mercuryblues]

12. Some of it is

just collating info. I think one thing that sped this up is the electronic age. a search warrant issued and instead of having to wait days and month for the info to be gathered at a bank, in just a few clicks you have it all sent to you from thousands of miles away. You want to know where a subject has traveled in the past 5 years? Warrants for his GPS on the car, phone, credit cards, passports etc. just a few clicks and it is in your hand. No more having to find the person's data by hand then get it physically from one place to another.

[peggysue2]

13. The Electronic Age . . .

has moved everything at a faster pace. Much easier to retrieve files, do analyses work--all that investigative stuff.

But also surveillance abilities have been vastly expanded and improved since 9/11. This is where I'm aghast that these people were so arrogant and stupid to think they would not be caught on video and/or audio or electronic messaging of any kind. Here and throughout Europe, we and our Western Allies have eyes and ears everywhere. The Steele dossier is only the tip of the iceberg.

Then again, I guess that goes hand-in-hand with criminal behavior. Criminals always think they can 'get away with it.' Must fall into the same cognitive wheelhouse of: Come on. Everybody does it.

[Thor_MN]

14. Trump's no Nixon.

For all the crimes he did, Nixon also did some good things. Nixon was vastly more intelligent than Trump.

Trump has no redeeming qualities and people are more willing to turn on him.

Ironically, Trump may actually drain the swamp by leading them to prison.