tOn Fri, 29 May 2015 11:12:25 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 9:59:31 AM UTC-4, Ignoramus17447 wrote:
On 2015-05-29, Howard Beal wrote:

"Ignoramus17447" wrote in message
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/denni...ry?id=31376076

Without knowing much detail, I find this article to be deeply
disturbing.

It seems that the crime that Dennis Hastert is accused of, is being a
victim of a successful blackmailer, and "structuring" his cash
withdrawals that he made to pay off and appease the blackmailer.

Added to that is "lying to investigators", which seems like a garden
variety retort that he "kept the money for himself".

Is that really the kind of criminal behavior that endangers our
society? What else is going on, is he falling victim to powerful
enemies?

I read some other stories recently, where "Muslim extremists" are
similarly pursued by the FBI and put in prison for some ridiculous
"crimes" like lying to the FBI. OK, in that case at least these
"extremists" are sworn and overt enemies of the USA, so I wrote that
off as a new normal.

But what about Dennis Hastert?

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If you use your right to remain silent you can not be charged with
lying to the government. Everything you say to any LEO will be
used against you. Save your explainations for the court room.

I have never been arrested, or under investigation that I know
about, but I was interrogated once, a long time ago, in a matter
concerning someone else. Nothing ever came out of this (for me).

Did you ever try to keep track of those who interrogated you and others that they've interrogated? Because you may have a right to sue if it was later found that illegal procedures were followed during the questioning.

I believe that there was a U.S. court decision that up held the
Interrogator's right to lie to the individual being inebriated while
if the individual being inebriated lies to the interrogator he is
committing a crime.

When I was in the U.S.A.F. I believe it was a regulation or policy
that the Interrogator was required to inform you, before you were
questioned, that you were not required by the regulations to answer.

At least when my wife backed into a guy's fender and we called the Air
Police to report it that was the first thing that the A.P. said when
he arrived.
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Cheers,

John B.