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Additional Arrest Made in West Paulding Arson/Murder
(Paulding County, GA) On Thursday September 19, 2019 Detectives with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) secured warrants on an additional suspect in the August 26, 2019 arson/murder of Austin James Nicholson (W/M, 24 YOA). Detectives and Agents charged Carlos Fredrico Hightower (B/M, 28 YOA) with the below offenses which are connected to the 2019 arson/murder. The 2019 arson/murder of Nicholson stems from the 2017 murder of Ronald Chadwick Morgan (W/M, 31 YOA) which occurred on Holly Springs Road.
Carlos Fredrico Hightower (B/M, 28 YOA)
2019 Charges
-Malice Murder (F)
-Murder (F)
-Arson 1st Degree (F)
-Influencing Witnesses (F) (2 Counts)
-Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon (F) (2 Counts)
-Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime (F) (2 Counts)
-Aggravated Assault (F) (5 Counts)
-Criminal Damage to Property 2nd Degree (F)
2017 Charges
-Murder (F)
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2017 Murder on Holly Springs Road
On January 20, 2017 Paulding Deputies responded to the area of 1680 Holly Springs Road Rockmart, GA 30153 (Paulding County) reference a shooting that had occurred. Detectives and GBI Agents ultimately discovered that Ronald Chadwick Morgan had been shot to death while riding a motorcycle on Holly Springs Road. Austin James Nicholson, Carlos Fredrico Hightower, and Magan Darleen Carroll were charged in connection with Morgan’s murder. Nicholson, Hightower, and Carroll were arrested on January 21, 2017. It is believed that the murder was the result of some type of dispute over property.
On February 11, 2017 Nicholson and Carroll bonded out of the Paulding County Jail. Hightower, due to the fact that he had a Probation Violation, stayed in jail and ultimately went back to prison. Prior to Hightower begin transferred back to prison, he posted bond on the 2017 murder charges, but was never released from custody. Hightower was subsequently released from prison on April 6, 2019. When he was released from prison, he still had not been to trial on the 2017 murder charges.
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2019 “Drive-by Shooting” on Winding Valley Drive
At approximately 11:28 PM on August 25, 2019 a 911 call was placed to Paulding E-911 from 378 Winding Valley Drive Rockmart, GA 30153 (Paulding County / Country Walk Subdivision) reference a drive-by shooting. Deputies and Detectives immediately responded to the scene and confirmed that multiple rounds had been fired at the home from a vehicle in the roadway. Fortunately, no one was injured inside the residence. Witnesses described the suspect vehicle as being a black sedan which left the scene at a high rate of speed. It must be noted that this is the former residence of Magan Darleen Carroll who was a co-conspirator in the 2017 murder of Morgan.
2019 Arson/Murder on Vinson Mountain Crossing
While Detectives were still processing the scene of the drive-by shooting, a 911 call was place to Paulding E-911 at approximately 12:48 AM on August 26, 2019 in reference to a vehicle on fire at 2172 Vinson Mountain Crossing Rockmart, GA 30153 (Paulding County). Paulding Fire/Rescue personnel along with Deputies and Detectives responded to the scene and eventually discovered that a badly burned body was inside what was later determined to be a black in color Acura TL passenger car. As a result of the forensic investigation by the GBI, it was later determined that the body inside the car belonged to Austin James Nicholson and that he had been shot prior to the car being set on fire.
As a result of an extensive amount of investigative work, Detectives and Agents determined that Nicholson and Hightower had just completed the drive-by shooting and now Nicholson was dead. Deputies and Probation Officers were able to arrest Hightower in the afternoon hours on August 26, 2019 on a Probation Violation warrant. Hightower was booked into the Paulding County Jail and held on his probation violation charge until he was officially charged with the aforementioned offenses on September 19, 2019. Detectives and Agents believe that Hightower and Nicholson went to Carroll’s residence and conducted the drive-by shooting in an effort to keep her quiet about the upcoming 2017 murder trial. Detectives and Agents also believe that a short time later, Hightower shot Nicholson and then burned his vehicle to hide any evidence of either crime.
Hightower’s girlfriend, Akeyla Xemaja “KeKe” Philpot (B/F, 23 YOA) was arrested on September 12, 2019 and charged with Murder (F), Arson (F), Influencing Witnesses (F), and VGCSA Possession of Marijuana With Intent to Distribute for her role in assisting Hightower in this case.
Although Hightower has not been cooperative throughout the course of this investigation, Detectives and Agents believe that he was trying to silence and/or kill the co-conspirators from the 2017 murder of Ronald Chadwick Morgan. As this investigation unfolds, Detectives and Agents are discovering a very tangled web of criminal activity with some of the individuals involved in these cases.
Detectives and Agents want to encourage anyone who may have additional information in these cases to please call the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division at (770) 443-3015 or Crime Stoppers Atlanta at (404) 577-TIPS (7477). Remember, you can always remain anonymous when you make a tip to the Sheriff’s Office or Crime Stoppers.
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Yes, I used to work hard at this.
gpatton
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That is one helpful little mutt.
... and too bad there was no meat in that vegetable soup.
.... When daddy spills the soup, it is not a problem 'cause he has lots of friends.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
gpatton
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I like the part of the story where the 80 year old doctor teaches himself video editing to put together the interviews he did in movie form and won awards :) .. Great story. Thanks for sharing.
gpatton
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UPDATE FROM THE SO:
QuoteOn Saturday August 17, 2019 at approximately 6:54 PM Paulding E-911 received a call from a male complainant reference a domestic dispute with shots fired at 32 Holland Court Dallas, Georgia 30132 (Twelve Oaks Subdivision). The complainant advised 911 operators that he was at the residence visiting with the female homeowner when another male came in and pointed a gun at him. When the male pointed the gun at him he exited the residence.
As soon as the complainant exited the residence he immediately called 911. A short time later he heard several gunshots come from inside the home. Once Deputies arrived on scene they were unable to make entry into the residence due to a secured door and requested the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team to assist. When the SWAT Team and Crisis Negotiations Team arrived on scene, they deployed the SWAT robot and discovered a male and a female deceased inside the residence.
The female was found deceased as a result of a gunshot wound and the male was also located deceased as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The female has been identified as Kattie Marie Perez-Brown (W/F, 31 YOA) of Dallas, Georgia. The male suspect who is believed to be Perez-Brown’s ex-boyfriend has been identified as Christopher Woods (W/M, 28 YOA) of Ringgold, Georgia.
This incident is still being considered an open and active investigation. Detectives are encouraging anyone who may have seen or heard anything on the night of Saturday August 17, 2019 to call the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division at (770) 443-3015.
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Actually, if it is a good idea, then the only reason it is unlikely is because those who see it as a good idea aren't willing to put time into an effort to make it happen.
The easiest path would be for a third-party entity (non-profit board) to adopt the effort as a project. A new board could be formed for this purpose.
Another board that might be interested would be the community services board which deals with mental health. This would more likely be the route if there is movement on the gun issue in terms of expanded mental health services.
Which ever organizing route chosen, that board of directors would then lobby to have the IBA obtain ownership of the property. The IBA would then likely lease the property to the board for a set term of years that is renewable.
There are several examples. For instance the Paulding Museum is now housed in the old county courthouse. Notably, Kennesaw State and Georgia Highlands are also located in former county administration buildings. Chatt Tech is also sitting on former IBA property there in Dallas.
Heck, I'm not sure but I think that Helping Hands is in a former county maintenance building still owned by the county and leased to the non-profit.
The point is, if it is good idea, it just takes some folks to take ownership and responsibility to make it happen.
In all honesty, it may fail as an effort for a variety of reasons but it the most likely reason for failure is that key leadership to make it happen does not materialize.
gpatton
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That is a good question and the answer may be 'nothing.' ... because any 'repurpose' of the property is going to be based on the utility or lack thereof of the facility.
For instance, this is the last time we had an old jail, that building was torn down. (The location is where Helping Hands now resides) This was accomplished at least five years after the old jail closed. Currently the juvenile facility just around the corner from the old jail (on the other side of the not completely abandoned Shaw Industries building in the north industrial park) is also vacant and, while there may be storage or possibly an office in the building, it is far from fully utilized since it was closed in 2014 (I think). It being a state facility (as opposed to county-owned) involves some of the issues in terms of re-purposing.
Some older, historical jails have been converted to high-end hotels, museums and even social services buildings catering to the homeless and recently released prisoners.
What I've gathered from a quick review of the literature suggests that the process begins with an idea and often it takes years for a project to gain the support needed.
One step toward repurposing would be the sale of the building/structure to the Industrial Building Authority. It is the only local group that has the authority to engage with private industry on the level needed to make a viable deal. Because of the history of that authority in regard to the movie studio and airport brings with it so much baggage that, more than anything else, confidence in that body may make any use, other than as overflow by the SO, impossible.
I do think that the shop and formal sheriff's office (split from the jail a decade or so ago.) will also be vacated as a result of the new jail, SO complex at the new county complex.
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Converted CellblocksThe many ways we recycle vacant prisons.
At a former prison in the Bronx, the metal bars, steel doors, and other remnants of the building’s carceral past will soon be torn down. Corrections officials have announced today that the Bronx’s Fulton Correctional Facility is being transformed from a minimum security prison into a reentry center for newly released inmates, marking the first time that a prison is being reused in such a way. Fulton has sat empty since 2011, when Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a slew of prison closures to help the state save money. Thirteen state prisons have since been closed.
Cuomo is not alone. In an effort to narrow budget gaps, some governors are shutting down or consolidating prisons in greater numbers. Between 2011 and 2013, at least 17 states announced that 70 prisons were slated for closure. Former Governor Rick Perry declared at CPAC last year: “You want to talk about real conservative governance? Shut prisons down. Save that money.” (In contrast, his predecessor, George W. Bush, oversaw the construction of 38 new prisons during his five years in office.)
So what to do with the now-empty prisons? “Reuse is a new territory in corrections,” says Nicole Porter, Director of Advocacy for the Sentencing Project, which compiles an annual report on prison closures. And while many communities, particularly rural ones, have struggled to resell or repurpose their vacant prisons, others have completely re-imagined the cellblocks in their backyards.
Recording studios and summer camps
In 2016, Growing Change — which designs models and methods for “flipping” vacant prisons — is set to transform Wagram Correctional Center in North Carolina, turning the solitary cells into aquaponic tanks that shunt fish waste through sun-facing walls into a greenhouse. The old “Hot Box,” a 19th century method of isolation and torture will become a recording studio. Other communities have their own creative ideas: The Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island will soon open as a movie studio; plans for a small prison in upstate New York have included a state veterans' cemetery, a Native American cultural center, and currently, a summer camp for kids; and on Monday, a former Louisiana detention complex was reopened as a transitional work facility.
When it came to transforming the Gainesville Correctional Institution in Florida into a homeless shelter in early 2014, “We tried to get rid of all the elements that reminded people it was a former prison as quickly as we could,” says Jon DeCarmine, director of operations for the North Central Florida Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry. Some of those changes have been aimed at the prison bathrooms, where showers face a large, open room. “We’re working on putting up curtains.” DeCarmine and others have gone on “search and destroy missions” to locate different signage around the prison property, including ones reminding corrections officers: “We never walk alone.”
What Everyone Gets Wrong
While some communities have struggled to resell their vacant prisons and jails, a prison’s restricted, self-contained design can be the very thing that makes it an ideal candidate for reuse. “Because these facilities are built to run around the clock, the building features make it convenient for many types of public and communal use,” says Catherine Chan, an architect specializing in prisons, jails, and courts. For Nick Erker, owner of Colorado Farm Products, the extensive security infrastructure at the former High Plains Correctional Facility made it the perfect location for his project: To grow and distribute medicinal marijuana. “There’s a video surveillance system, a lock system, concrete walls, and perimeter sensors on the fence,” he says. “All those lend themselves to a secure growing operation.” The proposal was “not well received by the correctional community,” he says, and is currently on hold.
An Inmate for a Night
A common trend among prison reconstructions projects — past and present — is to transform those facilities into hotels that incorporate the building’s history. The Liberty Hotel, located in Boston’s former Charles Street Jail, began accepting overnight guests in 2007. Visitors can still find evidence of the building’s prior life at Clink restaurant, where the “vestiges of original jails cells create cozy nooks for dining.” At the former Sultanahmet Prison in Istanbul, which became a luxury Four Seasons in 1996, etchings made by inmates can still be found on the marble pillars. And guests at Latvia’s Karosta prison shell out $16 a night to get the “full prisoner experience,” complete with a thin mattress, guards, and physical exercise as punishment. Until 1997, Karosta housed inmates; now, visitors must sign a form acknowledging they will be “insulted” and “treated like a prisoner,” according to the hotel’s website, which also tells prospective guests, “Remember that this is your choice.”
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There's not been a formal release from the SO at this time, apparently. The location of Twelve-oaks SD is just north and west of Mt. Tabor Park (across E. Paulding Drive.). Specifically, the street connecting to E. Paulding Dr. leading to this SD is "Hope Drive" according to online sources.
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Not a funny ... but a real story. It appears our great leader is wanting to transform the Internet so that the FTC and FCC can stop large sites that discriminate against all the conservative posters who know that hate speech is really not hate speech, it is conservatism and conservatism is the only truth.
Do I exaggerate?
gpatton
PS: The effort seems to come from an Executive order (Kings edict) and it will effect the way the government interprets section 230 of the DMCA to limit the right of website owners to moderate sites that accept user content. Gizmodo, (source of the link) says if the draft EO is adopted, it will 'break the internet' ... making for a new test of the concept that anything Donald touches dies. Heck, there is a book about that. and you can get as a free audiobook
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Apparently it has been moved to the 'fastread' forum at the very top of the 'forums' page.
gpatton
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Nothing happened to pubby ... well, I'm going to change my screen name ... but I'm on the board of the new pcom and I'm actively helping move the site on toward its natural purpose - connecting the community.
But I'll be 69 this coming October and, while I have no concerning health issues, when Caped Crusader came to me with his plan; it answered some critical questions I had regarding the site. Hey, this is just the best way forward
and I'm happy to help it along.Gpatton
I have know evidence what so ever that this is true. And there is absolutely no reason to believe it. But I heard he became an Uber driver. And last anybody heard a rich drunk guy has hired him to drive to California. He was gonna check in from the road.
Ought to be a hell of a story.Damn ... I wish I'd thought of that
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I think when Mueller's investigative findings are revealed - we know only the tip of the ice burg - it will be more far reaching and devastating, not only to Trump's administration, but to the core of the unimaginably corrupt Republican political structure.
It is Trump's FEAR that he's going down that is pushing him toward conflict with government by the people. He feels that he'd rather confuse things by creating a fight over immigration in the belief that it will divert the attention of the public from his proven criminal activities.
Personally, I could agree to "a border wall" if it were constructed by bundling waste plastic into bundles which would be stacked to provide the proverbial barrier. In building it, I would require the plastic being used be obtained by paying a bounty for plastic by the pound or bundle thus creating a more lucrative market for plastic recycling.
It would look something like this:
And its construction would not only do good (imagine all the plastic that a bounty on this pollution threat would 'use' and the incomes for the homeless it would provide) but embody the legacy of this president as Trump's wall.
FYI: Three people with 100-ft of cable could easily cross one of Trumps' 'steel' fences in less than five minutes. Considering you could stack these plastic bundles as higher than 30' tall (just expand the base and rack 'em and stack 'em) this could not only be cheaper, more environmentally sound that putting the waste plastic in a landfill (this is a way to recycle plastic),
pubby
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In regard to GD's arguments:
Conservatives have been making mountains out of mole hill's so long when they look at the mountain of lies Trump piled up, they don't know what it is. In the old days we used to just say they couldn't tell sheeze from shinola.
pubby
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The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.
-Jude Wanniski, March 6, 1976
The Republican Party has been running a long con on America since Reagan’s inauguration, and somehow our nation’s media has missed it – even though it was announced in The Wall Street Journal in the 1970s and the GOP has clung tenaciously to it ever since.
https://www.alternet.org/2018/02/two-santa-clauses-or-how-gop-conned-america-nearly-40-years/
Read the piece but haven't fact check it but the ratios seem reasonable based on general understanding.
It says ... When WWII ended, the US debt was 119 percent of GDP. Truman and Eisenhower kept the top tax rate at 90 percent (the wealthy have always paid the same tax rate on the lower levels of income as everyone else - i.e. they pay the same rate as you pay including Social Security up to about $120,000 these days.) They dropped the debt to about 55 percent of GDP. Carter saw the debt decline to its low point, about 31 percent of GDP. Reagan-Bush borrowed their way up to about 85 percent and dropped down to about 55 percent under Clinton.largely due to economic growth. GWB with the economic crash, pushed it back up to the over 90% in part because of the negative growth in the crash. And largely because of the recovery, Obama dropped it back to 85% by t he time he left office.
Trump, of course, led the passage of a tax bill that has zoomed the debt to 100% of GDP currently and it will zoom to 120% by 2020.
This absurdity is purportedly explained by the invention of the Republican Santa in an essay in 1976 by an largely unknown writer.
It is definitely an interesting way to frame the Republican strategy over the last 40 years. It answers the question of why they're spendthrift's when they're in power and budget hawks when the Democrats are.
pubby
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That's only because Trump is in Iraq and can't get on Twitter.
That's funny.
BTW, I think the local conservatives recognize that Trump is not only transactional in mind, willing to boldly lie and considers all this 'a game' that he or others can make money from.
You were rejoicing. You and your fellow loyal Democrats would gladly see the stork market and the entire economy crash just so you could justify your hatred of Trump.
You care more about winning than you do for your country.
That is a lie and a highly divisive one at that. Hell its premise is an insult that says people want to lose what economic well being they have. Lying to increase distrust is a hateful act against all.
As far as concern about winning vs. country ... this is not a monopoly game ... it is not a game at all. It is a conflict between the haves and the have nots and the haves are trying to do what they did in Russia, which is to transfer public goods and property into the pockets of a handful of thieves. While cash, property, companies and the like are being plundered, the biggest crime is the externalization of the costs of fossil fuels.
Weather related damages in 2018 - obviously intensified by climate change - cost over 500 billion this year while killing in the tens of thousands. Unchecked, climate change will rob not just our children of their future - you can call the criminals in this play nobles and kings - and you can call the rest of us serfs or slaves. That is the endgame of an expanding division of income in this world.
The plan of right wing governments from Putin to X to Erdogan and MBS was to 'buy a president' who wants to be part of this massive thievery. The president is key part because they believe if they co-opt the president, it removes the threat the US has traditionally posed to criminal regimes since Woodrow Wilson and the Kaiser. the broadly accepted American concern for human rights.
The real disconnect with what I feel is the overwhelming mass of Americans is not just Trumps coziness with the world's worst dictators but his betrayal of long-term foreign allies ... the allies that we've fought against these sons of bitches for all the 20th century.
I know that I feel like Trump has betrayed his public trust because the only thing justifying his actions toward MBS, Erdogan, Putin, Kim Jung Un, XI and the idiot in the Philippines are his endless string of lies.
Those who support this infantile prick, if they prevail in the short term, will be cursed by their children and their children's children for eternity. We don't need a trucking king and a king with the character of Donald Trump will damn us for eternity.
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I haven't been to your site and have no intention of ever going to your site GD. Given that I have made no effort whatsoever to go to your site for any reason, to suggest that I am asserting some right to project non-existent hate is just one more lie that puts you, IMHO, in a race with the president for the bottomless or is it the perpetual pinnochio.
When it comes to your constant barrage of hateful commentary, I consider the source and forget it as no consequence. Hell, I truly wish you folks would just go away and segregate yourself into your own special non-reality.
As far as CC being banned from your site and you still posting here is a demonstration of the degree you believe in the freedom of speech. Obviously your banning him shows that you don't believe in freedom of speech if that speech disagrees with your unreality.
pubby
PS: I have to say I get the queasy feeling we've been infiltrated by fellow travelers if not full-fledged Russian trolls. We know they were recruiting from the more asinine ranks of the NRA.
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The original post was about the economy and the troubling decline in the stock market largely due to the erratic, dangerously erratic, president from hell.
To suggest the turn in the conversation to the personally critical falls solely on those who pretend to be holier than thou. We all know who the bully is here.
pubby
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So much for that honest and family values platform.
You mean to say that when Kemp, when he was criticized for STILL, AFTER MULTIPLE BREECHES OF STATE VOTER DATA INCLUDING THE RELEASE OF MILLIONS OF RECORDS INCLUDING SS#'S AND IT BEING PROVEN THAT SECURITY HAD NOT BEEN FIXED, DECIDED TO INSTEAD LIE AND ACCUSE HIS CRITICS OF HACKING WHEN THE FAULT WAS HIS CONTINUING MASSIVE INCOMPETENCE.
Yep, the judgement of the white nationalists wing of the GOP is that an incompetent, lying, but gun-loving white guy, is preferable to any person that is not an incompetent, lying, but gun-loving white guy ... 'cause we know they aren't racists or white supremacists.
How do we know that? Well, because every white nationalist member of the GOP agrees and they'll bully you, online or off, if you don't agree.
But the white nationalists should know that the Senate, which had blocked anti-lynching legislation for 100 years (and 200 tries) finally decided that lynching someone should be a considered a federal civil rights crime. The house has passed this measure many times over the past 100 years.
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I couldn't find a switch for it.
I did see why. Google, which runs reCAPTCHA as a free web service, introduced two new versions and disabled the first. The first - V2 - returns more information about who's doing what and V3 even more ... the info collected is also shared with the site owners.
Right now that function is broken. There is a way around it ... which is to email me 'publisher - at - paulding.com ' with this in the subject line IN ALL CAPS: HELP! PUBBY HELP! and I'll help as soon as I can by resetting the password to one that once you're in, you'll be able to change to your more secure one.
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Let me see what I can do. I may be able to turn off recaptcha.
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You know I hate it when others do it but I am beginning to think the only way to answer some of the scat being thrown out by the right with a simple, all encompassing reply.
That reply:
I told you so.
pubby
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Those with a clear understanding of the laws regarding the handling of classified information understand what Clinton was doing is illegal.
I think the term is technically illegal kind of like the lady in the gas station who was accosted by car jackers and hit one with a door of her car as she sought to escape their nefarious intentions and ran away 'from the scene of an accident'. Yep, she was technically in violation of the law about leaving the scene of an accident but self-defense seems a legitimate justification. Not perfect behavior but also not criminal.
Having criminal 'intent' is a key element in most crimes and acts that may appear legal can be criminal based on the intent of the actor.
For instance, when Donald Trump, as president, provided classified material to the Russian Ambassador in the day after FBI Director Comey was fired, if it was done in payment or consideration of the Russians providing illegal assistance to his election campaign, that 'legal' act of the president providing classified material (The president can unilaterally declassify such material) would become a criminal act if it were a payoff for a bribe.
Context, frankly zorro, is everything. If you don't grasp that, then you're education has been a failure.
pubby
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I think I see some diet coke in the stock ... is there any DDP ... Diet Dr. Pepper ... cause I'm probably game for all the DDP you got. As far as the other poster, you paid for the privilege and they're just complaining about pcom which they love to hate. Why they'd travel across Georgia from the distant place at least one of them lives to give a high-five if they could run A&M off pcom. With the new board I've not quite figured how to 'disappear' individual posts (only topics) but if one of the other owners have the tool, I'd recommend using it. Anyway Brad, thanks for the heads up on the cola and don't worry about the negativity that these particular posters are famous for. gpatton