A government employee's actions in dealing with classified information is simply not the same as a private person, whether that person is a reporter or a lobbyist.
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As to the decision, the verdict of the jury could not be more clear. The jury has said these men are not guilty on these counts.Abbe Lowell
You are not drawing the difference between Congressman Condit and his family being extraordinarily helpful to the police and not being extraordinarily helpful to the thousand media people who are dogging him and his kids and his wife and are asking for details of their private lives that they are not going to accommodate,
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We expect that the trial will show that this prosecution represents a misguided attempt to criminalize the public's right to participate in the political process,
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I think right now he's thinking about how am I helpful with the police, how do I keep my family together, how do I protect the privacy that I have earned over this past however-many decades
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The charges are often overstated, based on strained definitions of what is an offense under the law, are often not supported by actual evidence in the boxes and are sometimes, as in the case of counts 10 and 11, the product of zeal to make a case, rather than to state the law.
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I don't think Congressman Condit believes that Larry King Live or Primetime is a church and Larry King or Connie Chung is the priest and this is the place for a confessional.
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