You know, CWV, I respect you for the things you've been through in this life, but that irrational thought where Trump is concerned overtakes your brain every once in a while.
Trump is asking a question about the DNC server. SAME ****ING QUESTION SO MANY OF US HAVE ASKED SINCE IT HAPPENED.
Same. One.
Go back to your law school days. What's the first thing they teach you about chain of evidence likely in your first semester?
Don't violate the chain of evidence. Things become, what's the word? Oh, INADMISSIBLE in court. The problem here is the freaking Agencies tasked with getting that evidence NEVER HAD THE ****ING EVIDENCE, NEVER SAW THE EVIDENCE AND RELIED SOLELY ON A CONTRACTED THIRD PARTY OF THE VERY ENTITY THAT WAS HACKED TO PROVIDE THEM EVIDENCE.
You, as a lawyer, would have a field day with that in court. Don't even try to deny it. You'd be grinning like a mule eating green briers if something like this came across your desk and you were on the defense.
"Did you ever see the physical evidence?"
"No, but we saw copies of and traced this and that and one other thing which supported the copy we saw."
"But you never saw the physical evidence?"
"Well...no."
"Why not?"
"Well, they wouldn't let us."
Don't act like you can't sew all kinds of disbelief into a jury or judge's head in that line of questioning. That's like a lawyer wet dream right there.
Furthermore, Putin is playing his chess game again. He knows by telling us "sure, come observe as our treaty allows" he puts Mueller in a corner. Furthermore, how in the hell would this ever go to court without having to bring some of our sources and methods to light? Yeah, we've ****ed ourselves good with this one. We are backed into a corner and Putin knows it. I had an old supervisor that used to tell me "I'll give you all the rope in the world." Either to pull myself up to to hang myself. Right now, we're hanging ourselves.
In a situation this massive and potentially destabilizing for decades to come between two nuclear powers, wouldn't you want every piece of evidence you could possibly get including the source evidence to prove your case to the world? Would you accept "no, you can't have it" as an answer if you were the lead investigator?
WTF is wrong with you? Nations have gone to war over lesser things than this. But you want to blindly believe what a contracted third party was saying? That very same third party that was contracted by the DNC?
Here's the real questions you need to be asking.
WTF are we doing to keep it from happening again if indeed a foreign power was influencing our elections?
And who benefits the most from this situation we're currently in?
Putin? What does he have to gain? A sympathetic President that could change out in four years and we go back to the status quo?
The GOP? What did they have to gain besides a candidate they didn't want?
The DNC? I'll let you answer this one.
