Russia and our election

[Dill]

(07-12-2017, 12:25 AM)Au165 Wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/politics/trump-jr-legal-problems/index.html

I know I know CNN, but In their a Harvard law professor talks about how while tough it would appear to be considered a contribution of value.

Hasen said earlier Federal Election Commission guidance would suggest such opposition research would be covered, but that he was not aware of any prosecutions that would be relevant to the new Trump controversy.

I'm telling you dont sleep on this, the number value may be "priceless" but there is still value.

Thanks for the link. It gives us a range of legal opinion in this case.

If it is true that no information was actually passed to T jr., then there may be nothing "of value" to assess at all.

I understand that opposition research could be a value item--e.g. if the Russians hired a British firm to get dirt, which they did legally, then paid for it and gave it to the Trump campaign. But in this case the "opposition research" was achieved by illegal activity, a kind of breaking and entering online.