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If I am running for office and a foreign government sends me harmful information on my opponent, am I supposed to just NOT use it?!?!?
Let's say I'm running for some office. It matters not which one. POTUS or Local Secretary of the Landfill Commission. Take your pick.
And one day I get an envelope or an email or whatever. Contained within it, I find about 150 pages worth of verifiable information on my opponent proving he/she has engaged in all manner of disreputable behavior. Not just rumors, but stuff that can be proven with the help of the documents themselves.
What am I supposed to do? Just NOT use it?!?! How does that make any sense at all?
I know, it's illegal for foreign agencies to interfere in elections. But that mostly applies to FINANCIAL contributions, vote suppression ... stuff like that. Giving someone TRUE, VERIFIABLE information is NOT "INTERFERENCE". If anything, NOT sharing that information would be "interference".
Look, if you have TRUE information which could reveal unseemly behavior on the part of a candidate, then "interference" is NOT making that information public. WITHHOLDING that information is INTERFERENCE!! Not SHARING it with the other candidate.
As a corollary, suppose I'm not the recipient of the information, but the News Media and the Media reports on it. Or maybe the data just gets posted on the web for all the world to see.
What am I supposed to do? Drop out of the race?
How do people not see that accepting certain forms of help, even from a foreign source, is NOT illegal or improper?
Those saying that the law requires I report this to the FBI and not use the information, please cite the specific statute that says this. Frankly, I don't buy it. Any such law would be direct violation of the First Amendment. If I have information, no matter it's source, I have the right to use it. If such a law DOES exist, then it's time to challenge the Constitutionality of such a tyrannical law.
People kept saying it was illegal. No one was able to cite an actual statute. Maybe it is, but these people did not prove it.
6 Answers
- Never PolledLv 62 years agoFavorite Answer
New York Times reports stories from undisclosed sources all the time....might they be foriegn?
- Anonymous2 years ago
Yes, you are not supposed to use it. You should report illegal things like this to the FBI. If you have any patriotism you would not want foreign governments to interfere in our elections and would not want to engage in a crop relationship with them.
- Anonymous2 years ago
Information is information is information.
If it can be verified, use it.
- ndmagicmanLv 72 years ago
If you do not call the FBI and give them the information you are violating federal election laws.
Plain and simple.
- ?Lv 72 years ago
You give this information to the FBI and tell them where you got it. It is illegal for you to use the information. It appears that Republicans don't think this way, which reinforces the opinion that they are crooks.
