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In reply to the discussion: Overreaching: Politics is one thing. Espionage is quite another. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)37. It doesn't really matter what they did, it is pretty well established these days
That laws do not apply to billionaires or politicians.
Laws are only for the little people, for those above the law, we have something called looking forward that negates any law broken by the elite, effectively an indisputable get out of jail free card.
It is just a fact of life in this country now.
The rest of us on the other hand can serve time for the slightest of offenses, and often do, we have the largest percentage of a population serving time, but no justice for anyone at the top. Period. End of story.
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Overreaching: Politics is one thing. Espionage is quite another. [View all]
Stinky The Clown
Mar 2015
OP
Isn't clandestine consorting with a foreign power against your own country still called treason?
world wide wally
Mar 2015
#2
Yes. The other person spying on America is called the enemy, also punishable by the death penalty.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#11
Let's assume the military is comprised of honorable individules and will follow the law.
fleabiscuit
Mar 2015
#5
It's a strange world we live in. I was referring to the brass, not the common soldier.
jalan48
Mar 2015
#7
You definately put your size 15's squarely into it this time, stinky. But I think you nailed it.....
marble falls
Mar 2015
#12
Did Dems use a foreign power to gather intelligence on Bush and then cosort with them to undermine
world wide wally
Mar 2015
#19
It's not the strawman argument you have laid out as to "whether" Congress knows the information or
yodermon
Mar 2015
#28
so you think it is ok for congress to collude with foreign government spies to undermine our
magical thyme
Mar 2015
#30
If you're Congress and the President isn't telling you anything about an extremely serious nuclear
Wella
Mar 2015
#21
Politics is a game where the winners get more spoils than the losers. Never any hard feelings. nm
rhett o rick
Mar 2015
#31
It doesn't really matter what they did, it is pretty well established these days
Dragonfli
Mar 2015
#37