[Libloather]

...there were so many loose ends and internal roadblocks...

Kinda sounds like a certain election audit.

[Seruzawa]

Really. That’s the defense? The investigation was so messed up that his lies didn’t matter?

“It was okay to embezzle that $100K, your Honor. Their accounting system was so messed up that they’d never have noticed.” Try that one in Superior Court.

[lepton]

However, Sussmann’s defense suggested that miscommunication, hesitation and internal bureaucracy led to FBI agents failing to try to find information they easily could have discovered about the source of the allegations.

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Which would have defeated his purpose for his visit, and his intended actions.

[JustaTech]

Looks like Sussmann’s lawyers have nothing except dragging the FBI down with him.

Excellent.

[Paladin2]

Baker is the one that needs to be locked up.

[piasa]

That is the nature of small lies, that ever larger lies in great profusion inevitably spring forth as the guilty try to prevent the original deception’s discovery.