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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I am running for Congress. Russians, acting in concert with Wikileaks, start leaking all sorts of nasty shit about my opponent. I decide to take a political risk and welcome this, even encourage more of it. But I do not directly coordinate with the Russians. I simply receive info from them and use it to my advantage. I also telecast to these Russians that I understand they want me in office over my opponent. To get more info into the public sphere of the sort these Russians are peddling, I even state overtly that I want better relations with them, so they'll keep leaking such info through Wikileaks.
Is this "dancing from afar" a crime?
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Had the Trump campaign directly received any of the hacked materials from the Russians, I'd assume someone would have been charged.
And "crime" is hardly the only consideration here. Anyone with even a shred of sense about how this activity leaves them compromised and subject to blackmail would have been smart enough to run away from the situation.
