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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Regarding Assange, his actions did have dire impacts. However, so did Daniel Ellsberg's. So has every significant leak.

Of course one can draw distinctions between different situations, instead of dismissing them as "victimless crimes." That was my point. Thank you for your support.

Moving beyond Assange, I used "victimless crimes" because very often, politically charged cases involve politicians or their charges violating campaign finance law, or some bizarre law on disclosures or reporting gifts, or registering as a foreign lobbyist (that ridiculous case against that Obama DOJ lawyer). There are no real victims there.

So do you think those laws are pointless?

And on the political stuff, I still can't figure out how Benghazi would be a crime if all of the allegations were true. How would that be beyond mere negligence?

No kidding.

And Martha also served another purpose: Getting her prosecutors air time. That'll get a prosecutor a nice pay bump when he flips to the private sector to handle defense work. Demonstrates you can handle the attention and the media.

In other words, it was about something other than deterrence. Thank you.