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2020-05-22 -Land of the Free
Lying To The Cops Should Not Be A Crime
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Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-22 03:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 I agree. Why should it be illegal to lie to anyone if you haven't been sworn into a court? Yes, the wiser move is to shut up. But they can blackmail you with your silence as well (even if that is supposedly illegal).
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-05-22 09:42||   2020-05-22 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 For context, the police ARE permitted to lie to you.
Posted by Iblis 2020-05-22 11:19||   2020-05-22 11:19|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a bad law, especially if they can "edit" the 302s afterwards.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-22 12:43||   2020-05-22 12:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Given the people who've been sworn before Congressional investigations who have been since found to have lied, it should carry the same penalties.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-22 15:54||   2020-05-22 15:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Dershowitz's expert view:

When questioning any suspect, officials should not ask questions whose answers they already know, for the sole purpose of seeing whether the suspect will lie. If they do ask such questions, untruthful answers should not be deemed “material” to the investigation, because the FBI already knew the truth.

The FBI should not discourage the suspect from having his lawyer present during the questioning, if a false answer will subject him to criminal liability. Even noble ends do not justify ignoble means, and some of the means used by the special counsel have, indeed, been ignoble.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-22 16:57||   2020-05-22 16:57|| Front Page Top

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