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Originally Posted by wdmso
Was carter page charged NOPE
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Carter Page was not charged because he was not the target and the FBI knew he was not guilty of anything. Which makes the lying to the Court to get the warrant on Page even more deceptive. But it's OK by you to lie in order to get what was in itself an unlawful warrant in order to actually spy on other Americans beyond Page whom the FBI had no legal reason to be spying on which is why a FISA warrant could not have been granted to spy on them.
It was a total distortion of the process that is supposed to protect all of us, not just an isolated case of someone who supposedly lied to the FBI, but actually didn't commit any other crime than that supposed lie and it was known by the FBI that the conversation he supposedly lied about was perfectly legal which made the FBI interrogation as flagrantly corrupt as the lie given to the FISA Court.
It was hard enough to get the FISA process approved because of the grave danger to American citizens if the government was allowed to spy on any of us without extremely solid protection against government abusing our rights and liberties. We were guarantied that the FISA process would protect our rights and liberties from tyrannical invasion of our personal privacy. To so blatantly disregard that protection and get away with it without substantial penalty, and even without loud complaints and demands from the people of this country for the prosecution of all those involved, while at the same time demanding that someone not guilty of a crime for which he was being interrogated, but guilty only of a "process" crime of lying (to interrogators who lied to him) which was not relevant to anything other than that it was false and of no consequence beyond that, be prosecuted to the full extent of the law is all not only an egregiously unbalanced and probably politicized view, but it is even more of a threat to our liberties when the citizens care so little that when government can so easily, without our reproach, trample on those liberties at will. And merely by telling a lie. And when we on the other hand cheer when the government prosecutes a citizen for no other crime than telling it an inconsequential lie.