“To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden,”
By putting the Obama Administration on the spot? Hmm, nope, that’s not what the definition of aiding and abetting is.
Aiding and abetting is an additional provision in United States criminal law, for situations where it cannot be shown the party personally carried out the criminal offense, but where another person may have carried out the illegal act(s) as an agent of the charged, working together with or under the direction of the charged party, who is an accessory to the crime. Internationally, it is comparable to other laws governing the actions of accessories, including the similar provision in England and Wales under the Accessories and Abettors Act 1861.
It is derived from the United States Code (U.S.C.), section two of title 18:
(a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.
(b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal.
So, for instance, even if Obama didn’t actually forge his BC himself, he aided and abetted the forger by claiming at a press conference that it was genuine?
Or if Obama himself didn’t threaten the media with FCC annihilation if they reported on his eligibility problems in October of 2008, but he had David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel do it for him then he aided and abetted them?
And if he didn’t assassinate Andrew Breitbart himself but got somebody to do it for him, he would be aiding and abetting?
Or if David Gregory knew that Obama’s lackeys had threatened him and all the other media if they reported on his ineligibility problems and David Gregory failed to report it to the police and went along as if no crime had been committed, he would be aiding and abetting?
I think these jerkwads need to choose their words very carefully because they may end up eating them in prison - if we ever get the rule of law back...