This Russia investigation by the IC is taking so long because?

[SHRED]

My guess it's a vast connected web.
Many parts to put together.

I wish we were locking people up now!
How much more can this country take?

[Blue Meany]

1. I think the IC already has made assessments but they will not likely

be made public, save, perhaps for one from the intelligence section of the FBI whose assessments will be in the form of warrants and indictments.

[canetoad]

2. Recently I read a lengthy story about DFT

Can't remember where, or I'd link, but basically in it (I think it was a oldish article) he said that he likes to make everything as complicated as possible. Look at his web of companies - who could figure all that out quickly. Same would apply to his Russian ties and financing.

[Princess Turandot]

6. I think I read the same article. It quoted an attorney saying that the way his businesses are...

organized, there were so many entities with transactions/services going back and forth among them, and atypical management organization setups, that it was hard to figure out which entity/individuals were ultimately responsible for any particular action, if you were trying to file a lawsuit against him.

It might have been in a Kurt Eichenwald Newsweek article.

[Barack_America]

3. Because the sitting POTUS is going down.

[milestogo]

4. Because its a BFD?

I know, it seems like an eternity.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It's not taking an unusually long time as such things go.

The investigation will involve many people in the US and elsewhere and vast numbers of financial and other documents and electronic communications; and it will be opposed intensely by the administration and by others likely to be under serious legal jeopardy. Watergate took more than two years to unravel - and it was much more complicated than the underlying burglary, having involved dozens of people and intricate money trails - and this matter is far more complex. It will not be cleared up tomorrow, or next week, or next month. I'm sure there will be many leaks, and facts and allegations are likely to become public much faster than during the Watergate investigation (and this is due in good part to the stunning incompetence of the Trump administration, which has just walked right into a buzz saw). But the legal disposition of the evidence will take awhile. (The existence of the Watergate tapes was revealed in July of 1973, but the "smoking gun" tape wasn't produced until the following July because Nixon fought the release of the tapes in court (and finally lost)). We all want this to be done soon, but that's not likely.

[Best_man23]

7. Let it take time

Any case brought needs to be air tight.