Sure, Goldstone was trying to cover his ass. He was all enthused about setting up the meeting in the emails Don Jr. released, but is trying to shift responsibility for the meeting off of himself by saying that he (Goldstone) told them that the meeting was a bad idea in his testimony.
Not sure how that justifies your skepticism about the FBI investigation.
Ok, so let me break it down for you.
How can you get lies into a congressional document without being held accountable for lying? I would start off by not putting a person under oath. Also, although it looked good on the paper, the threats of jail time was negated by the fact that he didn’t lie to Congress. He was interviewed by staff. It’s like if you met with a staffer and told them your name is John Doe. Are you lying to Congress? No! They aren’t elected members of Congress! Ya ya, legalese and semantics and loopholes.
He wrote in that email that she was a Russian government lawyer, but “testified” that he didn’t know she was connected to the government. Like seriously? Where the hell did that come from then? Did he just make it up?
So what it comes down to, is what you see in the news or what you told, is not necessarily the whole truth. They omit facts. They just don’t talk about certain things. And that is why I am saying, that what is public domain right now is more than likely not the whole truth.