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- The American public is so polarized that yesterday's irony was lost on them.
- On April 10 Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Congress after it was revealed that tens of millions of subscribers had their personal information harvested and sold by Facebook, not only for targeted ads but for nefarious political ends.
- Just hours earlier it was revealed that the FBI - at the instigation of Bob Mueller - had raided the office and home of the President of the United States' private lawyer.
- The general public was directly victimized by Facebook, a deceitful social medium.
- The US president and the office of the president itself were victimized by an outrageous act that is part of an ongoing campaign to topple him from office. This campaign is headed by Democrats and Never-Trumpers, and abetted by Swamp Republicans.
- Following is the opinion of one of the best lawyers in the country, Alan Dershowitz.
- He says that with this FBI raid, the long-held right to confidentiality between lawyer and client has been irretrievably damaged. Anyone could be next.
- By the way, the FBI was not looking for signs or treason or major crimes against the nation. They were looking for salacious information regarding Trump's extramarital affairs and his efforts to cover them up. That's their official story, anyway. Unofficially, they will be looking for ANYTHING whatsoever that can be used to throw Trump out of office.
- You can say that along with the loss of lawyer-client privilege, democracy itself and the right of citizens to elect the president of their choice have also suffered a blow. It is the swamp and Deepstate using all kinds of dirty tricks that continue to be in charge. Your vote is a mere symbolic gesture meaning nothing.
Why the FBI raid on Trump's lawyer hurts all of us
By Alan Dershowitz
The pundits say that since prosecutors won’t get to see or use any privileged material taken when FBI agents raided and searched Cohen’s law office, home and hotel room Monday the intrusion will not be a problem. This is because prosecutors and FBI agents create firewalls and taint teams to preclude privileged information from being used against the client in a criminal case.
But this analysis completely misses the point and ignores the distinction between the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution on the one hand, and the Fourth and Sixth Amendments on the other.
The Fifth Amendment is an exclusionary rule. By its terms, it prevents material obtained in violation of the privilege of self-incrimination from being used to incriminate a defendant – that is, to convict him or her of a crime.
But the Fourth and Sixth Amendments provide far broader protections: they prohibit government officials from in any way intruding on the privacy of lawyer-client confidential rights of citizens.
In other words, if the government improperly seizes private or privileged material, the violation has already occurred, even if the government never uses the material from the person from whom it was seized.
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