[conservative in nyc]

Let's say Billybob says "you're a poopoo head" to Betty Boo, and then you pick it up and you tell Betty Boo that she's a poopoo head.

But if Billybob says "you're a poopoo head" to Betty Boo, and Betty Boo replies "Yes, I know that", and then I pick it up and I tell Betty Boo that she's a poopoo head, how is that defamation? That's closer to what happened here.

[muawiyah]

Turns out C.R.E.W. appears to have "changed" the emails. When they did that they "owned them".

So, the analogy might better be that I heard Betty Boo called a poopoo head, and then turned around and said "Betty Boo is a bucket of spit" ~