Mustang
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Not really. Such "questions" tend to be VERY much fact-specific.
What YOU might label a "violation" of "law," others may contend was NEVER a real "law" in the first place, for example.
And what YOU might contend was a violation of the Constitution, OTHERS might contend was never a violation in the first place.
So, yeah. It ALL comes down -- on a very much case by case basis -- to the FACTS of the specific case.
That's not necessarily so. Just because some people yell, "unconstitutional" every time something happens that they don't like, doesn't make it so.
Nixon CLEARLY broke the law with the Watergate burglary, the subsequent coverup and slush fund payments, and then engaged in obstruction of justice by trying to deny Congress their constitutional right to investigate the matter.
There was no ambiguity in that case, at all.
It was from that case that Hillary both learned to use a paper shredder, and to forget details. That sure saved her ass, later.
The only specific (and well-documented) example of a paper shredder being used in conjunction with a WH operation that I'm aware of is when Oliver North and Fawn Hall were shredding documents in the basement of the WH after the Iran-Contra scandal came to light. They admitted it.
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