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To: DiogenesLamp
"it starts to build a picture that perhaps a crime might have been committed"

Which gets you exactly nowhere. We don't commit state resources to investigate people because "perhaps a crime might have been committed". We investigate when we have probable cause that a crime has been committed.

"You are dismissing details that possibly point in the direction of a crime, but none of which by themselves are sufficient to meet the threshold of "proof.""

I don't dismiss them, but even taken altogether, they do not even begin to approach "probable cause". If you took the entire mass of "pizzagate" speculation to the most sympathetic judge in the country, you would not be able to get a warrant. All the internet forum hystrionics in the world won't change that. Some actual evidence of a crime might, but so far the pizzagate theorists are still coming up short in that department.

58 posted on 01/18/2017 2:04:10 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
Which gets you exactly nowhere. We don't commit state resources to investigate people because "perhaps a crime might have been committed". We investigate when we have probable cause that a crime has been committed.

The "State" is not investigating this. So far it is a bunch of speculative amateurs pondering what they have found, and until something more conclusive is brought to light, that is the way it should remain.

Some actual evidence of a crime might, but so far the pizzagate theorists are still coming up short in that department.

And on that we are in agreement, but because it still smells, I don't discourage any amateurs from continuing to look at it. Maybe they will find something.

62 posted on 01/18/2017 2:10:30 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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