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LordoftheMorons posted...

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.

Spying is illegal everywhere. And if we spy on our allies, we are not being a very good ally, are we? Also, Russia used to be one of our biggest geopolitical foes. Not anymore. Not since the 2016 election.

I don't care if it's standard operating procedure, sending people to the gulag for coughing while Stalin was speaking was standard operating procedure in the Soviet Union too. It's wrong. And here in the US, we have a legal doctrine for dealing with this already - fruit of the poisonous tree. All evidence collected from such activity is unusable and any case based thereon must be tossed. Then the perpetrators can be charged with subornation of perjury. Glad we finally have an AG who's being objective instead of just supporting our law enforcement agencies.

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