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> have someone locked up based pretty much exclusively on them saying "You won't understand why, but he did really bad stuff. Trust us."

At best that might extend to his initial arrest but not to his subsequent imprisonment. That was the result of a criminal trial that showed he violated the EEA. Which was subsequently overturned on appeal, but only because of a "technicality" in the phrasing of the law which has subsequently been clarified to explicitly and unreservedly criminalize the actions that he took.




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