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dragontamer • yesterday at 4:04 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Do you seriously think Kash Patel is pursuing criminal action in regards to these hacks?

We know who the head of FBI is, we know who his boss is (the Attorney General), and finally we know who the boss-of-the-boss is (Donald Trump).

We know all of their publicly stated politics and all of them are on the pro-AI / don't pursue criminal cases vs OpenAI boat.

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In the USAa, we have an adversarial system. If the adversary (aka Prosecutor) doesn't want to do the work, then no one is suing anybody. And only the Department of Justice have the ability to bring forth a criminal case of this matter (probably under the jurisdiction of FBI)


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estearum • yesterday at 5:44 PM

There are a number of federal agencies who can claim jurisdiction over these matters, then there are state agencies who can claim jurisdiction over subsets of them.

I'm saying that it's absolutely silly to assume they're in the clear based on lack of public declarations of legal action in the weeks following a pretty novel event.

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