Russia and our election

[Dill]

(07-11-2017, 01:30 PM)michaelsean Wrote: After thinking about it, my opinion, and I'm not speaking to legality, is that if someone has information and you had no part in helping to obtain it or asked for it to be done for you, and there is no quid pro quo, then I'm OK with it.

In this case there is automatically a quid pro quo, if the information helps Putin choose our president.

If you, as a Trump campaign operative, accept such information, then you become "part of the plan" so to speak, accepting a role in a Russian espionage operation for your personal advantage. Further, as Harvard Professor John Coates (in Bels' link) puts it, you"deprive another of the intangible right of honest services."

If you respond to and "hear out" the offer, as T jr. did, then you indicate your receptivity to treasonous actions.