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Originally Posted by Badger52
And in some cases in MI.6 charged with investigating each other - what a gig, eh?
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Well, the FBI had its own version of that with Robert Hanssen.
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Mueller thereby established a new but lunatic precedent in American jurisprudence in which a prosecutor who fails to find sufficient cause to indict a suspect nonetheless releases supposedly incriminating evidence, with a wink that the now-besmirched suspect cannot be exonerated of the alleged crimes.
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Not entirely new. I have long been bothered by the practice of naming individuals as "unindicted co-conspirators" in conspiracy cases. This seems to have the same effect of besmirching one's reputation without giving him or her the opportunity to defend themselves. Of course, I am also bothered by "perp walks" and other tactics by police agencies to besmirch reputations and potentially bias jurors before a suspect has even been indicted.