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The primary mandate of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is to determine if there are “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.” That specific task has nothing directly to do with criminal liability for any Americans or Russians nor anything to do with the potential political implications for the president, whether in the form of an impeachment report or something else. The primary mandate of the special counsel is instead a counterintelligence investigation. With all the media focus on potential criminal and political implications, we often forget this critically important, core mission for Mueller. We should concentrate far more on that dimension—the counterintelligence effort—as the country prepares for the release of the special counsel’s report.

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