Thanks for the info...I had never heard of the term "Misprision" before. But some questions.....
1) If the phone was used as part of the "crime with a younger person"....and if the call was generated from DC to any other State...what entity would hold jurisdiction?
2) If the someone (or any number of people) who had knowledge of the IM's for three years, and didn't make them public, would it be a crime?
3) If the IM's were in fact not from the machine of the Congressman (or any other person who may have done the same thing and involved a minor child), how could anyone know if the ethernet IM's printed on paper was a crime, or just a made up story by someone?
4) Regarding those IM's....all sorts of questions. It can be pretty certain that Foley didn't cc his own IM's and keep copies.
--So is it a crime to hack someone's computer and try to get copies of something someone else wrote?
--If the young person him/herself copied these IM's, and gave them to another group of people, for money....is that a crime?
--If that happened, would the group of people or even a single person took money, so they could blackmail the young person, the Government employee, or their families....is that a crime?
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. |
