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In response to "my lay perspective "collusion isn't a crime but conspiracy is" sounds like "murder isn't illegal because they only take people to court for homicide" -- nm" by crash davis

There's a lot of fine lines around these issues. I still think it's going to be extraordinarily hard to prove a crime of conspiring with the Russians

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) Jul 30 '18, 09:29

to do a criminal act. I think the likely easier (though still difficult) path is obstruction. That all the lies and efforts to impede or undermine the investigation will add up to something.

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I see what you are saying, but I'm not going to be shocked if a ton of evidence all of a sudden spills out with indictments of the inner circle -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:43 2
- Definitely possible. But people are going to have to get comfortable with the concept of circumstantial evidence (which is what you're going to hear - pmb Jul 30, 09:48 1
  - It probably won't be pretty -- nm - crash davis Jul 30, 09:58

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There's a lot of fine lines around these issues. I still think it's going to be extraordinarily hard to prove a crime of conspiring with the Russians

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