The equally important takeaway from Volume I was (again) what was not in it. A significant number of the allegations Mueller had spent all that time investigating had come straight from a dossier supplied by the rival political party. Mueller’s failure to establish the veracity of any of those claims was a searing indictment of the FBI and its decision to proceed with that document. The nation had spent years engulfed in the dossier’s conspiracy theories, and Mueller had proved it all a hoax.
