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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Misguided Defense of John Brennan and The Logan Act: a Dangerous and Unconstitutional Law https://greenwald.substack.com/p/rep-ilhan-omars-misguided-defense
Foreign policy dissidents have the greatest interest in repealing the Logan Act, not wielding it as a weapon to shield ex-CIA Directors while heralding it as a clearly defined criminal statute -- like this: https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1332529361841496065
The *only* time the Logan Act has ever been used to indict anyone -- 217 years ago -- was when a Kentucky resident wrote an Op-Ed agitating against US war posture toward France -- exactly what @IlhanMN, based on nothing, claims falls outside the statute's scope:
All of this matters not only because of the perniciousness of the Logan Act, but also because of what it says about Trump-era liberal-left politics.
That the Logan Act is a dangerously vague and unconstitutional statute was, until quite recently, a consensus among US liberals.
That the Logan Act is a dangerously vague and unconstitutional statute was, until quite recently, a consensus among US liberals.
Recall in 2015 when liberal law professors and Dem Party activists demanded that Tom Cotton and 46 other GOP Senators be prosecuted under the Logan Act for their Open Letter to Iran. How does that square with @IlhanMN's claim that it doesn't bar one-sided communications??
Once you start arrogating unto yourself the right to use authoritarian and lawless methods, and to align behind repressive institutions CIA and FBI, you become exactly what you started off believing you were fighting. The Logan Act is repressive in part because of how vague it is
Anyone who values the right to dissent from US foreign policy should be doing nothing on the Logan Act other than what Ted Kennedy did for all those years (and what many conservative commentators now do): demand its full and immediate repeal. Jarring to see @IlhanMN defend it.
