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It is worse than Watergate. The FBI spied on a Presidential campaign using evidence supplied and paid for by the another candidate.

If the names were changed, Hacker News people would be outraged. They would be mad at the FISA court, mad at the FBI, mad at the media.

Look in the mirror and decide, do you have consistent principles or do they own apply in certain situations.

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Multiple senior members of a Presidential campaign have either pled guilty or been convicted of serious felonies, and you think the ones to blame are the FBI?

I mean I think the FBI has a lot to answer for, here and on plenty of other issues, but...

I don't know how to tell you this, because you won't believe it, but if you're sincere and not a troll then you have a very unhealthy media diet. Your take here is very disconnected from reality.

I'm sure you disagree. Alas.

Would you please not cross into incivility and personal swipes, regardless of how wrong someone else is or how strongly you feel? Your comments have been increasingly breaking the site guidelines in this thread.

I know this is an issue on which views are both polarized and fixed. But that's why the guidelines say that comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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