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"The committee chairman’s comments were: “We’ve not made a decision as to who, but we have made decisions that criminal referrals will happen.” As James Freeman writes, “Americans reasonably expect their government to identify a specific crime before suggesting charges,” let alone a specific person."

This brings to mind Lavrentiy Beria's quip: "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." As his boss Stalin reportedly told von Ribbontrop (as the non-agresson pact between the USSR and German was finalized) saidt: "Lavrentiy is my Himmler."

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Paul, I only wish that everyone had to read this. This is so well brought out. The idiots who would suppress both free speech and due process believe they are right so nothing else matters -- of course they should be judge, jury and executioner. It is everyone else that lets them get away with this that is really the problem. And the question is what do we do about it?

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