The Golden Wiretapps

The Case

The President sat alone in his bathrobe. None of those fools could see it. That black president was still out to get him and only he and his glorious tweets of fire could rouse the adoring masses to preserve an America where the unappreciated heir to a New York City real estate fortune could chisel and bluster his way to a presidency where he could sacrifice the entire planet in the name of obscene private wealth.

And then the super secret gold phone rang. "Mr. President? General Mike is requesting immunity from prosecution. He says he has a story to tell."

The Mystery

What did General Mike know? And when did he know it?

The Story

General Mike was a close advisor to the President and, ever so briefly, his national security advisor. He, along with many others in the campaign, was entangled in a web of Russian financial and political interests which sought to discomfort the other candidate and had no objection to installing an incompetent neophyte on the throne of the American empire.

But the real money flowing into the General's pocket while he was advising the campaign came from an Israeli natural gas company that wanted to grease the political skids in Turkey so they could hook into the Turkish pipelines. A possible scheme to this end was for the General to arrange to nabbing of a Turkish cleric now enjoying refuge in the US and a prime target of the Turkish prime minister.

Gas From Israel And The Flynn Wiretapping - Behind The Deep-State Infighting Over The Trump Election

The Solution

The investigators must uncover which former assistant to the General who still worked in the NSC under the protection of Bannon and Kushner was passing imperial secrets to the head of the House Intelligence Committee that could be construed as supporting the President's assertion the he was "wiretapped".

Oh, wait, they already know that.

Well, then the investigators must uncover the mystery of how both capitalist political parties in the US have become such venal tools of the dominant financial interests that the choice offered in a presidential election is between a gasbag TV celebrity and the spouse of a former president celebrated for tossing the interests of his working class voters to the wolves.

The Clues (reveal only if investigators are stumped)

Follow the trail of dead Russians. (add six months)

Audit the President's financial records. (add four years)

Solution Timetable

Master Detective          2017                6 points

Private Eye                  2018                5 points 

Flatfoot                        2020                4 points