• FishFace@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      If OP is saying that the likelihood of John Bolton having snagged a copy of the Epstein files in 2019 and used them as an insurance policy against them one day being released in modified form is in the same region as that of some random sheriff, then there’d be less contention.

      It’s not obtuse to point out the distance between John Bolton and a particular FBI raid. Indeed, it’s being obtuse to say how they’re linked in some game of six degrees of Richard Bacon when the point is that the mere fact of their being in slightly overlapping circles doesn’t in the slightest way imply that Bolton both was able to and actually did make copies of evidence.

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        4 hours ago

        No one said that has to be the scenario, you literally just made that up.

        It is, it’s literally his job to know what effects national security and that includes compromat in fact that’s the historical basis of the FBI’s intelligence involvement. There’s no six degrees, it was his job and history has taught us incidentally and accidentally withholding classified documents is fairly common with cabinet and committee members.