We now know that "No one is above the law" is a meaningless/empty phrase.

[Cyrano]

Trump has torn the mask off some of the bullshit we've lived with our entire lives.

I'd be thankful to him, if I didn't want to see him in a dungeon for the rest of his miserable existence.

It's amazing how much propaganda was drilled into us as children and that most of us (me included) still beleive.

[usonian]

1. Everyone who has compromised classified information has been arrested on the spot and jailed.

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I read a list of greatest espionage cases in U.S. history and this one exceeds them all by two orders of magnitude, if not more.

There are records and eye witnesses. More slam-dunks than an NBA slam-dunk competition. Matter of fact, all of them combined.

Dominique Wilkins could try this case and win in no time.



On edit: almost everyone, of course.
So, today's news item:
https://archive.ph/XAoxg
Former U.S. Soldier Is Accused of Trying to Give Classified Secrets to China

By Adam Goldman
Oct 6, 2023

So get this: during a trip to Istanbul, Mr. Schmidt tried to contact the Chinese Consulate.

“I also am trying to share information I learned during my career as an interrogator with the Chinese government,” Mr. Schmidt wrote, according to court documents. “I have a current top secret clearance, and would like to talk to someone from the government to share this information with you if that is possible.”

He added: “My experience includes training in interrogation, running sources as a spy handler, surveillance detection and other advanced psychological operation strategies.”

While in Turkey, Mr. Schmidt searched online for phrases like “turkey extradition military defection,” “can you be extradited for treason” and “what is china’s intelligence agency.”

In March 2020, Mr. Schmidt traveled to Hong Kong, where he repeatedly tried to supply China with national security secrets, the court documents said.

Caught this week after flying from Hong Kong to San Francisco for unknown reasons.
To see the 49ers play Dallas on Sunday? No idea.

Google records your search history if you have an account there and log in, as lots of people do.
The FBI also had his Apple Maps history from his iCloud account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/w9o7nv/does_google_actually_keep_an_entire_search/

[onenote]

6. Tell that to Petraeus and Sandy Berger --- never spent a minute in jail

"Everyone"?

[usonian]

8. How should it be modified?

Every small fish?
Glad to accommodate a correction.

[maxsolomon]

2. Never really believed that, myself.

The rich and connected get preferential treatment; it has always been thus. It used to be far worse with racial violence, so I suppose we should be grateful for how it is now.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Don't look now, but your cynicism is showing. Nt.

[The Magistrate]

4. Quite So, Sir

The man is entitled to every courtesy and break which would routinely be extended to any indigent charged with multiple felonies and represented by a public defender.

No less, and no more.

[Xavier Breath]

5. I don't know that I would agree that it's a "meaningless/empty phrase."

"Recently and continuously stretched beyond all elasticity" sounds about right, though.

[sarcasmo]

7. Anyone can be President, oh wait!

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

9. Some of us knew it was meaningless decades ago

I had to break the news to a fairly recent immigrant that our courts were hopelessly corrupt...unless you were rich.

That was in 2014.

I could speak to that, because I'd seen too many people get screwed by rich people in court. Or a rich person who should have been strung up walk free after a grievous criminal act.

The latter hit very close to home. A friend of mine is dead now because the system ignored the many warning signs of her (eventually) ex-husband's escalating domestic violence assaults against her.

He had money.

She didn't.

He's finally in jail.

But she's dead.

The legal system failed her, over and over again.

I have never forgiven them for that.

[SamKnause]

10. It always has been meaningless.