Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Remember all those people calling scooter and Cheney treasonous for outing the [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)52. I'm not talking about an increased legal punishment.
I'm not sitting on a jury during a trial. I'm voting for president. The fact that there is no greater legal punishment for accidents is not relevant.
If it's an intentional act, then you know you were doing something wrong and deliberately violated "the rules".
If it's an unintentional act, you blundered into violating the rules. Indicating you don't know or understand the rules, and thus are likely to do it again. Not only that, but it indicates you're unwilling or unable to find out and understand what those rules are.
does it give you any comfort at all that his actions were deliberate?
Compared to blundering into the same actions? Yes. At least he only broke the law in relatively contained instances during petty revenge, instead of breaking the law all over the place with absolutely zero consideration of what might happen.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
52 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Remember all those people calling scooter and Cheney treasonous for outing the [View all]
onecaliberal
Jun 2016
OP
It's not true, it's a Trey Gowdy lie. Do you believe everything you read on Breitbart?
YouDig
Jun 2016
#22
So there's no evidence except for Breitbart. And if that guy's a lawyer then I'm an astronaut. lol
YouDig
Jun 2016
#31
Come on L, there is a big difference between deliberately outing CIA agent in mass media and
blm
Jun 2016
#17
just to be clear, even if everything anti-hillary is true, it's still very different from plamegate
unblock
Jun 2016
#9
again, i didn't say it was ok if true, but not, accidental is not worse than deliberate.
unblock
Jun 2016
#50
She and her supporters have an excuse for everything. Her email was set up that way
onecaliberal
Jun 2016
#20
Remember when Hillary INTENTIONALLY released classified info? Oh wait, SHE NEVER DID.
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#28