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red sox 777 posted...

Why were they spying on Russia? The incoming US President made greater friendship and cooperation with Russia a cornerstone of his campaign platform. Isn't it obstructing the will of the American People to persist with antagonizing Russia during the lame-duck period?

Now, you can argue that Obama was elected for a full four-year term in 2012 and he was entitled to persist with his policies until the very end of his term. That's true and that's not illegal. But if the FBI was attempting to get a witness to commit perjury - that is definitely a crime.

Russia had just interfered in our election and are one of our two biggest geopolitical foes. Even setting that aside, we regularly spy on even our allies! Spying on countries like Russia is literally the main point of those agencies.

And as far as "getting him to commit perjury" goes, they were asking him questions they knew the answers to and charged him for lying when he lied of his own volition, which is the same thing they do for all of their other cases, whether for drugs, terrorism, or whatever. If you have a problem with that, then fine! Argue that Congress should make it illegal. But it's very much standard operating procedure, and there's no reason that it should be a special outrage when it's done to Flynn.

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