There was a time when networks like MSNBC and CNN argued for civil liberties and against such abuses. Now, because such principles would benefit Trump, there is just a shrug with a common mantra “everyone does it.” Yes, abuses occur but that is not license for their commission..
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...one experts agrees with Ben Wittes that “the Flynn prosecution involved common FBI tactics. Those tactics have been blessed by the courts time and again.” They blessed planning a trap and then, after investigators conducted Flynn was not intentionally lying, coercing a plea?..
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So according to experts on MSNBC and other networks this is all just standard procedure in discussing how to trap a high ranking incoming officer under a clearly unconstitutional law. Experts are just shrugging off this with “everyone does it.” ...
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The ‘Bombshell’ That Wasn’t? Lawyers Say the FBI’s Tactics in Michael Flynn Case Were ‘Routine’
” Lawyers Say the FBI’s Tactics in Michael Flynn Case Were ‘Routine’”
Says more about the lawyers who would say that than it does about the tactics.
The authors of that article cite a conga line of progressive leftist mouthpiece attorneys opinions to make that assertion. It, as usual with any such liberal leftist progressive claim, false.