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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Improperly getting a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page in 2016 can just as easily become improperly getting a warrant to conduct surveillance on "enemies' of the Administration in 2021, should Trump win another term (which is an even money proposition).
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With the important caveat that I haven't read up on the details, didn't the IG conclude that the warrant was properly issued despite the misconduct?
Which is not to say I disagree with you at all here.
It one of the things that bothers me about a common criticize of Obama from the left: he should have prosecuted Bush-era people for war crimes. While I don't doubt that the things Yoo blessed at Cheney's urging (among others, perhaps) are war crimes, but prosecuting your political opponents opens a gigantic can of worms that you can't close once someone with sufficiently few scruples decides to do it for political advantage alone. Does anyone doubt that Hillary would be in jail right now had Obama set that precedent?
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