>As for Moscowgate: seems to me that unless FBI and others wind it up soon, the terms are set for infinite ongoing disruption and leaking to undermine and distract government of whatever color, ad infinitum. That ought to be a scandal, but nobody seems to care.

That strategy seems to have worked for the repubs.
They hammered away at her email server, never found anything, but it had an effect.
Likewise with Trump and the birther nonsense.