WASHINGTON—For individuals such as J.D. Gordon, the release of the Mueller report is at best bittersweet. It marks an end to the investigation that he says has done him and others an “immeasurable amount of damage,” but he doesn’t see it as a conclusion to a fundamentally un-American episode in our national life.
Before the Mueller investigation started, Gordon was known as a retired Navy commander, a former Pentagon spokesperson, a foreign policy adviser to three presidential candidates, and the proprietor of a communications firm. After the investigation began, Gordon feels that his reputation was attacked, and that he and his family were terrorized.
