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Mueller in Hot Pursuit
Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2018 | Judge Andrew Napolitano

Posted on 02/22/2018 6:48:13 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: aynrandfreak

Sloppy article, poorly analyzed, speaks more of his personal opinions than facts.


61 posted on 02/22/2018 8:06:45 AM PST by Okeydoker
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To: Kaslin
There is so much wrong with Napolitano's article that it is hard to know where to start.

1) "computer hacking" "hacking into computers"

Napolitano should know better than to equate hacking in to computers with signing up for a twitter account without using your real name. Mueller appears to be trying to criminalize what millions of Americans do every day. If providing inaccurate information to a web page is a crime, then 90% of the people using dating web sites are criminals.

2)"the Russians ran unchecked through our computer systems and the American marketplaces of ideas."

Since when is it a problem, much less a crime, for anybody from any nation to do things like use Facebook, or Google, or Twitter, or publish and promote their ideas? At any instant of time we have billions of people from all over the world running "unchecked" through American computer systems, and putting ideas into "the American marketplace of ideas."

The countries that don't welcome everyone's ideas to be aired are the opposite of America. China and North Korea would be examples of countries where foreign ideas are not allowed.

3)"It is a felony for foreign nationals to participate in American federal elections, and it is a felony for any Americans knowingly to assist them."

Napolitano is stretching the law here, but if he is right then millions of foreign students and immigrants, legal and illegal are felons. And they were assisted by universities, employers, the State Department, and former President Obama's DACA program. So by Judge Napolitano's logic, we should expect to see tens of thousands of foreign college students, H1B workers, and DACA kids charged and convicted of felonies. And of course a lot of university administrators, State Department employees, and a former President being indicted. Plus of course the various media groups that "knowingly assisted them" by providing a platform and coverage, and internet service providers who gave them accounts such as Facebook or Twitter.

If 13 Russian trolls are some kind of danger to our nation and our free marketplace of ideas, then millions of foreign college students, workers, and immigrants is a far greater danger. By Mueller's logic, and now Napolitano's, those foreign college students marching with signs, or posting comments on Facebook are felons, along with the people and organizations that supported them.

In reality, what the Russians did is no different than what millions of foreigners do all the time. The same charges in the Mueller indictment could be levied against immigrants and foreign residents from all over the world. But somehow I don't think that is going to happen, which is proof itself of a witch hunt in progress.

62 posted on 02/22/2018 8:19:56 AM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: odawg

They’ve gotta have the Judge by the short hairies at this point.


63 posted on 02/22/2018 8:20:34 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: odawg

They’ve gotta have the Judge by the short hairies at this point.


64 posted on 02/22/2018 8:20:34 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Liz; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

I like BOOMS ping


65 posted on 02/22/2018 8:33:53 AM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: MHGinTN

“Ignored the tips and warnings? Are you really that naive?”

I was referring to within the context of the judge’s essay.

Of course, this latest shooting was made to order for the Leftist, deep state agenda — if not ordered.

It was amazing to watch the sheriff dodge the issue of his own culpability.


66 posted on 02/22/2018 8:34:47 AM PST by odawg
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To: odawg

If this was such a vast undertaking could somebody please link one of these alleged Russian internet posts?


67 posted on 02/22/2018 8:51:58 AM PST by RonnG ( v)
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To: freeandfreezing

Interfered in the marketplace of ideas, by advancing their own ideas.

Does Napolitano even hear his own words? Sometimes irony can really be ironic.

Anyway I have my doubts that any of this happened at all


68 posted on 02/22/2018 8:53:48 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Liz

I love ya but “BOOM”??? NOTHING is going to happen to the CORRUPT MUELLER or any of the other CORRUPT crooks....they are all Deocrats and Barney Fife Sessions is a timid little mouseman who will do NOTHING to them!


69 posted on 02/22/2018 8:55:16 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOT0G48rtQ Yeah hot


70 posted on 02/22/2018 8:57:27 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Kaslin
It is a felony for foreign nationals to participate in American federal elections, and it is a felony for any Americans knowingly to assist them.

Then far more fruitful investigations could begin with La Raza and the state of California.

71 posted on 02/22/2018 9:15:59 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Kaslin
Why didn't the CIA or the NSA or the FBI pick this up?

Because back in 2014, the CIA, NSA, and FBI were all busy with their assigned tasks of spying on, intimidating, and killing law-abiding American citizens.

Multitasking is not exactly a government employee's forte'.

72 posted on 02/22/2018 9:21:30 AM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Liz
Dates are important b/c Snowden's' revelations indicate Obama's government spying apparatus began capturing all electronic data on everyone in the U.S. in 2001. They succeeded in mastering the capture of all keystrokes, telephone calls and digital traffic by 2005.

Here's another $64,000 question - - why doesn't the NSA hand over all phone call/computer keystroke etc information to Mueller today? It's not too late to 'share'. What's stopping the release of information? Bad actors being protected?.

73 posted on 02/22/2018 9:27:32 AM PST by GOPJ (The 'dead vote' is a byproduct of fraud that votes the people who don't show up.)
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To: Kaslin
It is a felony for foreign nationals to participate in American federal elections, and it is a felony for any Americans knowingly to assist them.

Can we thus indict any illegal alien voters, and the people who registered them to vote?

74 posted on 02/22/2018 9:36:08 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: sargon; GOPJ
succeeded in mastering the capture of all keystrokes

Should say, "If you have installed NSA spyware on your machine"

75 posted on 02/22/2018 9:40:48 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: sphinx

As reported by TIME on 29 July 2016:

‘Gianni Pittella, a longtime Italian member of the European Parliament, hit the campaign trail this week. Sitting at the back of the Gran Caffe L’Aquila, he warned a group of local businesspeople and supporters of the evils of fascism. Except Pittella wasn’t touring Italy. He was sitting in Philadelphia, trying to convince American voters to oppose an American candidate: Donald Trump.

Traditionally, European leaders attend both conventions. But only a handful of European diplomats announced they would attend Trump’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week, most notably UKIP leader Nigel Farage, the man behind the “Brexit,” and far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders. Pittella said dozens of European diplomats from across Europe’s political spectrum showed up in Philadelphia this week.’


76 posted on 02/22/2018 10:22:26 AM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Kaslin

How has Mueller missed Clinton and companies connection to the Russians an all that bribe money!

It is like he is crooked or something.


77 posted on 02/22/2018 10:46:54 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Should say, "If you have installed NSA spyware on your machine"

Everyone has 'installed NSA spyware' - either on their machine, or their provider's systems, or some foreign counties servers... The NSA sweeps it all up...

78 posted on 02/22/2018 10:57:55 AM PST by GOPJ (The 'dead vote' is a byproduct of fraud that votes the people who don't show up.)
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To: GOPJ
Everyone has 'installed NSA spyware' - either on their machine, or their provider's systems, or some foreign counties servers... The NSA sweeps it all up...

I am not sure whether they can sweep up all the keystrokes without an installed keylogger. But let's assume that all Windows versions in this century have a built in keylogger and snitch service. Certainly windows 10 has one. But it has to be connected to the internet to allow access.

79 posted on 02/22/2018 11:28:43 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: Kaslin

Judge Nappy head has been a longtime gaslighting guinea for the stasi state.

Why would townhall publish anything he has to say? He’s a ball-gargling leftist


80 posted on 02/22/2018 3:30:01 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America...Treat them accordingly.)
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