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Former Obama mentor: Trump's Russian hack 'jokes' could 'constitute treason'(right!?)
politico.com ^ | 7/28/2016 | Caroline Kelly

Posted on 07/28/2016 12:50:49 PM PDT by rktman

For Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, not only do Donald “Trump's "jokes" about Russia amount to "inviting an adversary to wage cyberwar against the U.S.," but they also "appear to violate the Logan Act and might even constitute treason,” he tweeted Thursday........adding that he “must have been hallucinating” at hearing Trump’s calls for Russian hackers to infiltrate Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s emails.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dumbasses; libs
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To: LeoWindhorse

I bid our uniformed Armed Forces end the administration of Barack Obama , today


21 posted on 07/28/2016 1:00:32 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: rktman

Tribe had been using the Constitution for toilet paper for decades. Let him spew, he’s worthless.


22 posted on 07/28/2016 1:01:34 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: rktman

You gotta love how stupid they are. The servers have been decommissioned. If there was any hacking, it was done back when Hillary was running the servers before they were “wiped”. The hacking cannot be done on servers that are not online anymore.

Or maybe it’s just that they think the low-information voters won’t be able to figure that out.


23 posted on 07/28/2016 1:02:10 PM PDT by itsnevertoolate
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To: rktman

Back in day of Glorious Soviet Union, joking about Comrade Stalin would get one a five ruble note (five years in the GULAG).


24 posted on 07/28/2016 1:04:52 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: rktman; All
These jerks have pulled a variety of stunts like this on Trump, and they always fizzle. You'd think they would have learned by now that they just look stupid and childish.

BTW, it wasn't sarcasm, Trump was looking straight into the camera without a grin or a wink. He set up a trap, and these assholes fell into it. Trump is clever, and he proved it again yesterday.

25 posted on 07/28/2016 1:05:17 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: rktman

Isn’t it nice for a change to see Democrats getting politically bamboozled and left clueless as what to do next. Hillary’s convention is being completely overshadowed by Trump.


26 posted on 07/28/2016 1:06:50 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: rktman
Gee, Mr. Tribe, why would it be treason to suggest the Russians hack Clinton's yoga schedule, wedding plans for her daughter, and other data that was not turned over to the government on the grounds that it was exclusively personal information?
27 posted on 07/28/2016 1:06:55 PM PDT by thoughtomator (This message has been encrypted in ROT13 twice for maximum security)
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To: rktman

The gift that keeps on giving. I’m sure this is just what HRC wanted people to be talking about the night of her big speech....her emails.


28 posted on 07/28/2016 1:08:34 PM PDT by pb929
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To: Cobra64

The claim of sarcasm was another trap, and they’re falling into it as well. It’s just another reason for “Hillary hacked emails” headlines to dominate what would otherwise have been an unmitigated (if unrequited) lovefest for Her Royal Highness?


29 posted on 07/28/2016 1:08:35 PM PDT by thoughtomator (This message has been encrypted in ROT13 twice for maximum security)
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To: thoughtomator

Each time a Democrat says something stupid, Trump rises in the polls.


30 posted on 07/28/2016 1:10:32 PM PDT by FreedBird (e)
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To: rktman

Donald said something like, if the rooskies can find them. A bit awkward turn of phrase, but the most plausible reading is, if they happen to be lying around somewhere in the kremlin.


31 posted on 07/28/2016 1:14:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: pb929

Trump gets JUST scandalous enough.


32 posted on 07/28/2016 1:15:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Talisker
Tribe had been using the Constitution for toilet paper for decades. Let him spew, he’s worthless.

That's a fact. The real problem is that he has comrades aplenty right in the Supreme Court..

33 posted on 07/28/2016 1:16:28 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It’s almost as if he’s go the media on a giant leash and he can just yank it whenever he wants to change direction.


34 posted on 07/28/2016 1:16:57 PM PDT by pb929
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To: rktman

“Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”

I find it remarkable the a Harvard law professor could reason that anything Trump said or did would fit this definition.


35 posted on 07/28/2016 1:17:38 PM PDT by Castigar
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To: Donglalinger

Who knows, maybe they have a new smallest room server yet to be discovered? Wouldn’t surprise me.


36 posted on 07/28/2016 1:17:42 PM PDT by KEVLAR (Liberty or Death)
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To: itsnevertoolate
Or maybe it’s just that they think the low-information voters won’t be able to figure that out.

I have to believe that is the case. No one who has a cursory knowledge of the facts would make such accusations, but they are counting on the public being too busy with their lives and just hearing the word "treason".

1) No one needs to invite other countries to try and hack or servers - they will be doing it anyways.
2) Treason is keeping classified information/emails on a private, non-secure server.
3) Treason might be outsourcing tens of thousands of personal records to a ChiCom third party company - as did Obama's fine Government a few years ago.
4) Treason might be telling the Russian President that the United States will be more "flexible" after the 2012 election.
4) The Server in question, Hillary's illegal bootleg server, has been off-line for over a year. It is not 'hack-able'.
5) Trump was talking hypotheticals. "IF" the Russians hacked Hillary's server - they can do the old drunk a favor by handing over her "missing" emails

The media and Tribe knows this - they are just trying to get the "Treason" sound bite out there. Of course by doing so, they are acknowledging that Hillary kept damaging, and classified, files on her hack-able non-secure server.

37 posted on 07/28/2016 1:21:32 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: rktman

All the newspapers I read leave this little detail out. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.” He is making fun of the press!


38 posted on 07/28/2016 1:23:12 PM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: Castigar

There isn’t even officially a cold war going on any more. How does this Tribe get away with this... this... horrible XENOPHOBIA?!?


39 posted on 07/28/2016 1:23:16 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: FreedBird

Every time a Democrat says something stupid, Trump rises in the polls!

40 posted on 07/28/2016 1:23:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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