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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by mhb on Saturday January 25, 2025 @04:45PM (#42825169)
Or, in a parallel universe, there's an old president who preemptively pardoned the person who might have been involved in GOF research leading to a lab leak.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by kleton on Saturday January 25, 2025 @04:54PM (#42825247)
It is an interesting angle, because now he could potentially be subpoenaed by Congress or anyone else, and it seems unlikely that he would perjure himself over anything after 2014.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by morepedantic on Sunday January 26, 2025 @03:11AM (#42828612)
All he needs to do is commit a federal crime right away.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by ocschwar on Saturday January 25, 2025 @07:52PM (#42826612)
That pardon means that person is available for subpoena and cannot decline to answer any question.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by morepedantic on Sunday January 26, 2025 @03:12AM (#42828619)
Unless there's another crime outside the scope of the pardon. For example, crimes within the statute of limitations prior to the pardon, new crimes after the pardon, or state level crimes during the period of the pardon.
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