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FBI Serves Apple Warrant to Gain US Senator's iCloud Data
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Treason is siding with the enemy. Investigation and impeaching Trump would not be considered treason under law.
You failed to note Republicans Jim Inhofe and Kelly Loeffler are in the same category as Feinstein.
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I'm not sure if you have ever read or heard of the following. Just something I read somewhere, I think some guys with a poor grasp of Capitalization trying to scope out the word "treason":
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted."
Does that meet with your idea of the scope of treason, as you use the word in your post?
Who says that Loeffler, Feinstein and Inhofe are not being investigated? The difference is, for those three, it has to be proven first that they had an inappropriate communication with their investment manager and directed them to make a specific prohibited sale. In Burr's case, he ordered the trades with a broker directly. It doesn't matter what you believe. If those three said the trades were made blind, then a communication has to be proven, period.
But, let's also look at the available evidence. In Burr's case, he made something like 34 trades in one day, all consistent with a pandemic strategy. Right after a key secret briefing. He sold off energy companies and others likely to get burned, and bought a telecommunication company that was likely to benefit from telecomputing. Geez! Do the investments made on behalf of the other three Senators provide as clearcut a pattern tied to the briefing, or are they more like those that would be made by an investment manager who was generally nervous about a possible pandemic, as were a good many other investors during that period? I don't know the answer to that, but the investigators would. Were similar transactions made in the days before, or over a longer period after, the briefing? If there's no strong pattern of investment decisions specifically tied to the timing of that briefing, there's nothing to investigate.
And who has been taken to court? If what "they" did was so bad, why hasn't anyone been prosecuted? If there is proof of wrong doing, then why has nobody ever been prosecuted (other than McCabe but they couldn't get inditement)? Even with republican's in charge, even with the president begging them to. Nobody has even been prosecuted.
It is all words and there is never any actions. I think you should think about this for a while and maybe you will come to the conclusion that it is all fake news but I'm sure you will come back with another conspiracy theory to explain this conspiracy theory.
Perhaps my understanding of Law is flawed, however it's my understanding Search Warrants aren't public information until a court trial. How did the Los Angeles Times get the information? Is it a news story the avenues a law enforcement goes through to make a case? Did they detail the broker that made the trades? Did they detail a Drop Box account? Do we know if Burr is an Apple user?
I support the justice system, serving a signed Warrant to Apple. Making it public information seems calculated.
I'm 100% behind the FBI enforcing the laws of the land. I'm a bit disquieted their view of enforcement means they're seeking the ability to review things I've chosen to keep private under what a reasonable person would expect is within my (US) Legal rights. On multiple occasions the FBI has broadcast their view technology companies should provide a back door. The back door issue is bigger than personal privacy, too. The concept of IP is challenged, too. A case could be made if a "hacker" using a backdoor publicly disclosed the plans for OS X, iMac, and (later) iPod, Apple may not exist today.
I can live my life happily if you disagree with my thoughts. I respect others that have dissenting views. I'll also note I can be wrong and have no shame in admitting it. Calling someone a "snowflake" or a "victim?" C'mon people, you're better than that.
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iCloud Photos is absolutely not end-to-end encrypted. Apple can and will turn over iCloud Photos content with valid legal process. “Nobody said anything different”? Apple does.
Joining many cloud file/media storage providers, Apple recently updated their privacy policy to say that they may scan uploaded content for known illegal content — this includes iCloud Photos. I’d love to hear how they accomplish that with E2E encrypted data.
That would be assuming that the trustee is willing to do the same prison time for insider trading as the settlor giving the insider information. Upon further digging the settlor has no power to conduct any transactions and is not aware of any positions that trustee has invested in on the settlor's behalf. That seems a bit better than nothing at all and certainly not idiotic.
The ability to catch a trustee doing this is essentially zero. No one ever goes to jail for this. Having to have a trustee is not idiotic, I agree it is better than nothing. Believing that it protects against abuse is idiotic.
Guess Burr is just especially stupid
www.nbcnews.com
"...but another one, involving Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is continuing."
Justice Department drops insider trading investigations of three senators
The Republican and Democratic senators were being investigated after they sold off stocks following early briefings on the coronavirus.
www.nbcnews.com
"...but another one, involving Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., is continuing."