didntkillself

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by didntkillself 6y ago
Perhaps another HN'er could explain it to you more clearly? Thanks for the insights and have a wonderful holiday season.
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by didntkillself 6y ago
My opinion is that you've misinterpreted and misstated. The way you've framed it, the question does not use the word "jurisdiction" in a consistent manner with its definition or practice and does not address operative el
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by didntkillself 6y ago
The question "Do other countries have jurisdiction in X?" is "no" for all countries X. I presume you meant that as an informal straw man to represent the question as less pertinent than it is?
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by didntkillself 6y ago
The version of the question I heard OP ask is: "Is this might makes right, or is there an international legal standard and international judicial body to resolve this on a consistent basis?" The way the OP asked it suggests OP thi
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by didntkillself 6y ago
For me the reality that Acosta was and is not in a position where he needs to lie or obscure to explain his actions, that nothing he has done as AG is illegal, there are no motions against him, there are better lies he could have told and t
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by didntkillself 6y ago
"Which seems to me just as likely that someone was paid to say that or that Acosta made it up to cover his butt for being the softest prosecutor ever." Equally as likely as in 50/50? That's coin flipping at that point -
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by didntkillself 6y ago
Here are the sourced listed in Acosta's Wikipedia article: - Ward, Vicky (July 9, 2019). "Jeffrey Epstein's Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on July 10, 2019. R
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by didntkillself 6y ago
Remember that Acosta stated that the US intelligence community approached and pressured him to limit charges to Epstein because Epstein was one of their agents. The implication here is that the sex trafficking to people in power was being u