Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The Plame thing was total bullshit. 100% political nonsense.

What Hillary did is indictable. But what's depressing isn't that she did it, or that she's since lied about it (she can't open her mouth without lying). What's depressing is the "crime" is a grotesque overreach. Clearly, Hillary did not intend to put sensitive material in the hands of enemies. She intended only to enjoy truly private correspondence which could not be searched. She should go to jail for having the electronic equivalent of secret conversations behind closed doors?

It's said the average person accidentally commits three felonies a day, and the state, by criminalizing almost everything, and eliminating proof of bad intent, has set up a scenario where anyone it wants to put behind bars can be, upon investigation, found guilty of something. For politicians, I'd say that number jumps to 10 felonies a day.

It's an irritating game of "gotcha" enabled by legislators who think the cure for every problem is another law, and prosecutors who use their offices as political assassination squads.

I'm glad Cheney skated, and I hope she skates. (But... If you want to put Cheney on trial for the Iraq War, I'm all for it. That ought to be prosecuted instead of silly shit like the Plame affair.)

Public officials do not have "private" correspondence where their public duties are concerned. Her correspondence in her official capacity is supposed to be discoverable and reviewable. That's sort f the rules of the game.