No, that’s referring to a notion of preplanned teams to carry out the effort. Which isn’t disproven, just has no direct evidence.
That does not say that they didn’t want to hang Mike Pence and capture and/or kill members of Congress during the insurrection itself.
They erected a gallows, chanted to hang Mike Pence, and openly discussed looking for and wanting to kill other members of Congress. You can find all of this in videos on their Social Media brags about their violent attack. And you conveniently skipped over hand-waving-away the murdering of Capitol Police…
Very special person. Trump loves him. Afterall, he was just standing by as directed, until he was ordered to attack Congress in a Trial by Combat in an effort to overthrow the government.
Whether or not putting on your server unsecured non-public data accessible by obscure URL parameters should be hacking is a lot less clear to me. I mean, a public server that you send info to and it sends you back stuff they didn’t want/intend for you to get seems more like incompetence or after-the-fact regret more than your problem for asking, but I’m afraid that perspective is no longer the legal view. There have been cases where unauthorized access under the CFAA was extended not just to outside actors, but to employees within a company who had access rights but weren’t supposed to use them for certain reasons (and did, being then guilty of “hacking”).
It’s the “specifically authorized but we didn’t mean to” line of argument, like has been used to charge some people for connecting to and using open wifi APs “without permission” despite the AP being specifically set up to broadcast that everyone had explicit permission.
But shouldn’t Parler have been cooperating with law enforcement and already turning over everything they had on the terrorists? And our federal law enforcement specifically asked for people to try to archive the posts and also help to identify as many terrorists as possible. It’s very odd to try to frame in a negative light assisting law enforcement with archiving public information as asked.
Sure, but I don’t think this would protect the “hackers” if they broke the law to do this. Smart of them to remain anonymous (for more reasons than just avoiding prosecution).
But didn’t a direct public request from a presidential candidate (not even an officeholder) to actually hack and break into private servers get Russia off from any consequences?
It’s been well established that it is racist and facist to suggest that everyone there should be painted with one stroke of the brush.
And note how not a single person here has objected to anyone being charged following the riot. But it is funny to see the over-the-top reactions now, after months of downplaying, excusing, and even endorsing similar behaviors all across the country.
I was reading something recently about the warrants and arrests that resulted from the Mueller investigation. A few of them were for Russians that worked for or funded that obviously-Kremlin-funded-and-supported troll farm and were tied to the DNC hack. Pretty sure nobody was arrested or suffered any consequences, but from our legal standpoint the answer is no, they weren’t absolved just because Trump asked for it.
Have you compared with the corrupt pardons already announced and executed and with those to be released tomorrow? I wasn’t referring to no individuals being charged. Don’s daddy got off scot free. You don’t remember? He asked him about it, Putin said it wasn’t him. Putin’s word is more valid than the US Intel community, US Military, and those of all of our allies.
No disagreement, except that he perhaps throws a whole lot more! But there is this important aspect:
Trump is in the main a counter puncher. Leave him alone and he will, in all likelihood, return the favor. But if you hit him first be prepared for a whole lot of return fire which can easily be out of proportion, on the high side, to the magnitude of your own attack.
The many lawsuits he had from contractors, business partners, Trump University students, etc. indicate otherwise. He attacked even judges that didn’t rule in his favor. He’s the kind of person that no amount of previous loyal service matters. You have to serve his interests at all times or you’ll be targeted. Ask Pence.
