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> If you think an attorney able to rise to the position US Attorney will be caught in a "falsifiable claim" on a matter of this prominence then you simply do not understand what you are talking about.

Some choice samples: Nixon: I'm not a crook. Oliver North lying to congress and many many others besides.

Officials at all levels make falsifiable claims all the time and sometimes they trip themselves up. Ortiz is under extreme pressure at the moment and very likely to trip herself up.




Maybe, but they don't make ones that can be proven via a simple email. They do it when they think there's a very real chance they'll not be caught.


Actually, email was exactly what tripped up Oliver North.

Even getting rid of incriminating emails is worse than keeping them for inspection. North and John Poindexter (sp?) exchanged emails, deleted them when they realized they were in hot water and those emails were subsequently recovered.


Wow, didn't know they had that back then. I thought everyone was still on text messages.


Well, people treat email a little differently now than in 1986.




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