If you’re a law enforcement official who has more allegiance to ideology than to the law or to the country, where does that get you?
For former FBI analyst Mark Tolson, the answer is jail — however briefly.
Tolson is best-known — if he’s known at all — as the man who broke into a pro-Trump operative’s email account in October 2018, took screen-shots of some of the messages, then sent images to a reporter and offered the reporter the password, according to Politico. The unnamed member of the media turned down the opportunity.
Tolson, 60, said he did it because that activist was claiming, absent any evidence, that then-special counsel Robert Mueller had committed sexual assault.
“I did what I did to try to protect Director Mueller, who can protect himself,” Tolson said at his sentencing at an Alexandria, Virginia, court on Dec. 20, according to The Washington Post. “I’m terribly sorry.”
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Oh, did I mention his sentence for such a FELONY.... 7 days and a $500.00 fine is not just a joke, it slaps the face of every citizen that such outrageous conduct is viewed as such a small infringement of ones Constitutional rights that it is treated with such disrespect by the courts as to make a mockery of our justice system!!!!!
For former FBI analyst Mark Tolson, the answer is jail — however briefly.
Tolson is best-known — if he’s known at all — as the man who broke into a pro-Trump operative’s email account in October 2018, took screen-shots of some of the messages, then sent images to a reporter and offered the reporter the password, according to Politico. The unnamed member of the media turned down the opportunity.
Tolson, 60, said he did it because that activist was claiming, absent any evidence, that then-special counsel Robert Mueller had committed sexual assault.
“I did what I did to try to protect Director Mueller, who can protect himself,” Tolson said at his sentencing at an Alexandria, Virginia, court on Dec. 20, according to The Washington Post. “I’m terribly sorry.”
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
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Oh, did I mention his sentence for such a FELONY.... 7 days and a $500.00 fine is not just a joke, it slaps the face of every citizen that such outrageous conduct is viewed as such a small infringement of ones Constitutional rights that it is treated with such disrespect by the courts as to make a mockery of our justice system!!!!!