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This gives a weird sort of incentive to "report" stuff anonymously...

"reports on the web say" can often be used to get court ordered investigations - no matter the validity of the anonymous info.

So "illegally obtained info" can spawn "legal" routes to investigate the same...

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Right, hack it, leak it, it becomes public, can be used in court. But my guess is this is Biden telling Putin we can do it too.

Hmm, just because it is publicly available doesn’t mean it was legally obtained. Leaks seem like a perfect example here.

Right but it may be that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Let's say if the CIA leaked it and then FBI used it. CIA operations are highly classified so we would never know if they leaked it, if they did.

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