Everyone who has multiple phones (including the legally necessary one Congressional staffers have) raise your hands.https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/925521712594243585 …
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I GET you all want to nail Paul Manafort: but 1) please don't be stupid abt what he has done 2) please don't criminalize normal activity
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Replying to @emptywheel
Isn't the concern that the phone was purchased under an alias?
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Replying to @__DavidFlanagan
There are legit reasons to do that too. As well as illegal ones.
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Replying to @PastorSeaLion @__DavidFlanagan
Hiding from a stalker and carrying out an affair (the latter of which Manafort was doing) both seem like unremarkable reasons to do so.
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Replying to @emptywheel @__DavidFlanagan
But it's far more common for them to be the stalker than to be hiding from one.
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Replying to @PastorSeaLion @__DavidFlanagan
I'd say it's far more common a drug dealer will have multiple phones than someone being stalked, but stalkers don't usu need separate phones
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And I also think it REALLY important to remember those reasons for pseudo phones (even aside from journalism) that pertain to safety
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