What verb would you use to characterize what Halper did? We're not allowed to call it "spying," so what was it?
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No, I think it's totally fair to conduct counterintelligence investigations under those circumstances. I also have no problem calling it "spying."
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By that definition of spying, would you say Russia inserted spies within the Trump campaign?
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Among other things, that would imply that Trump was running intellegence operations for Russia to counter. That makes no sense since Trump wasn't president yet and was not in charge of the CIA or FBI.
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I think you're being disingenuously selective with your definitions here. Veselnitskaya is AT BEST equivalent to Halper's approach on behalf of the FBI (likely worse because she was seeking action, not just gathering information).
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How is that counterintelligence? Even if we assume everything allegation about her is true that's hardly counterintelligence. Hillary wasn't president either at that point. Both she and Trump were still private citizens.
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Furthermore Hillary's emails weren't government records. You may recall they weren't stored on a govt IT system. The DNC servers weren't govt computers either. None of the allegations against Russia involve theft of govt secrets.
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If some of HRC's emails weren't determined to be government records, how did Judicial Watch justify a FOIA request for their public release?
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