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Topic	Fed. jury finds Paul Manafort guilty on 8/18 charges. Michael Cohen pled guilty.
Zeus 08/21/18 8:59:52 PM #43:	darkknight109 posted... Mead posted... By dirt Do you mean crimes Didn't you get the memo? Crimes are totally OK, as long as a politician you like (or someone tied to them) is the one committing them. #FishingExpedition Scrutinizing individuals up and down just to see if they committed any crimes is wrong on so many levels it's not even funny. If either one of you was being investigated for robbery and, when the cops can't find anything, they decide to turn around to investigate whether you've been selling drugs, paying your taxes, looking into what your friends are doing, search your computers just in case you have child porn, etc, you might understandably cry foul. And that's the fundamental issue with fishing expeditions, you keep digging until you something -- anything -- and sooner or later you're going to find that somebody has broken a law of some kind. This investigation has increasingly become clear that it's just to find anything rather than things pertaining to allegations of Russian interference, especially given that the biggest claims of Russian interference -- including rigging polls -- have been debunked, which is why the goalposts have been moved to things like ad buys. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:907313566] in Fed. jury ... [t:76924618]...</cite> <quote><cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>By dirt Do you mean crimes</quote> Didn't you get the memo? Crimes are totally OK, as long as a politician you like (or someone tied to them) is the one committing them. #FishingExpedition</quote> Scrutinizing individuals up and down just to see if they committed any crimes is wrong on so many levels it's not even funny. If either one of you was being investigated for robbery and, when the cops can't find anything, they decide to turn around to investigate whether you've been selling drugs, paying your taxes, looking into what your friends are doing, search your computers just in case you have child porn, etc, you might understandably cry foul. And that's the fundamental issue with fishing expeditions, you keep digging until you something -- anything -- and sooner or later you're going to find that somebody has broken a law of some kind. This investigation has increasingly become clear that it's just to find anything rather than things pertaining to allegations of Russian interference, especially given that the biggest claims of Russian interference -- including rigging polls -- have been debunked, which is why the goalposts have been moved to things like ad buys. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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