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FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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snowwrestler wrote: post #88

To clarify why it’s aggressive: federal employees have a legal duty to secure classified information, but everyone else does not. Reporters are not federal employees and it’s not illegal for them to have or discuss classified materials. Most of what Snowden leaked was classified, and remains classified to this day , but you and I can read about it on Wikipedia. The government pursued Snowden because he was legally ob…

> it’s not hard to imagine how this concept could get ugly fast

'Could'? Its because you people are acting as if its not already ugly that it got this ugly.

Re: FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

dabluecaboose wrote: post #324
Capricorn2481 wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The American Left has spent the better part of the last century attacking the 2nd Amendment That's doing a lot of heavy lifting. I know Republicans who unironically say shit like "We can't do background checks. What if I'm trying to buy a gun really quick for a hunting trip?" I would imagine your idea of "attacking" the second amendment is just common sense laws. > Just a few years ago, their own supporters were sm…

> I would imagine your idea of "attacking" the second amendment is just common sense laws. I would imagine your idea of "Common Sense laws" is actually just petty attacks on law-abiding citizens that do nothing to stop crime, so I guess we're even. > it just illustrates the right never actually cared about standing up to oppressive governments, My comment was not trying to argue that the Right did or does care. My co…

> I would imagine your idea of "Common Sense laws" is actually just petty attacks on law-abiding citizens that do nothing to stop crime, so I guess we're even

You imagine wrong, but you use that word "attack" again.

> My comment was not trying to argue that the Right did or does care

You make that sound irrelevant, like the right is a third party in this, and not the dominant party killing citizens in the street. I don't care what lazy gotcha you were trying to angle for, your comment was disgusting.

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