Shutting down your face book account could be obstruction of justice

[livingston]

I was just reading this and it seems to be a big wow. The government can come after you six ways to Sunday


George Papadopoulos' late night with the FBI
Breen declined to get into specifics of his conversations with his client, but he suggested Papadopoulos was agitated by the series of events that played out on July 27.

"That night, they did everything they could to let me and Rob talk to him and calm him down and explain to him that he was going to court tomorrow," said Breen.

In those conversations, the self-described oil, gas and policy consultant with a slot on candidate Donald Trump's foreign policy team learned that he was being charged with lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his contacts with pro-Russia advocates and with obstruction of justice for shutting down his Facebook account one day after a follow-up interview with the FBI in February.

In a booking photo taken at the Alexandria jail in the early hours of July 28, Papadopoulos is wearing a black golf shirt. He looks serious, if a bit tired, with somewhat heavier 5 o'clock shadow than usual. He was assigned to cell 113 and was checked out to "federal authority" at 8:27 a.m., apparently to head to federal court for an arraignment.
George Papadopoulos' late night with the FBI

 

[livingston]

This seems to be a bit overreach.. I am sure facebook has anything one ever typed on their page up in the cloud at least for a while ...

 

[Jmac00]

News flash, any prosecutor will charge you with obstruction if you delete anything from your computer and you are arrested. Even if you have done it as a matter of 'maintenance'.

If you clear your cookies....obstruction.

If you delete any account...obstruction

If you clear your browser history...obstruction

 

[kev74]

Facebook is the devil.

 

[SomeSoldier]

One more reason to not have social media accounts.

 

[Gonzobird]

This is why i never had a facebook page.

 

[@thewheels]

News flash, any prosecutor will charge you with obstruction if you delete anything from your computer and you are arrested. Even if you have done it as a matter of 'maintenance'.

If you clear your cookies....obstruction.

If you delete any account...obstruction

If you clear your browser history...obstruction

So my pc's self destruct sequence would be a problem?

 

[libertysnake]

News flash, any prosecutor will charge you with obstruction if you delete anything from your computer and you are arrested. Even if you have done it as a matter of 'maintenance'.

If you clear your cookies....obstruction.

If you delete any account...obstruction

If you clear your browser history...obstruction

Not obstruction if the drive is encrypted. All still there -- just unavailable to read.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Funny, this doesn't apply to the BleachBit Bitch democrat. I guess rules are for little people.

 

[SomeSoldier]

Funny, this doesn't apply to the BleachBit Bitch democrat. I guess rules are for little people.

Always.

 

[carpediem]

If he goes to prison, what will happen to his adopted son?

 

[Cooolone]

That's why you setup an elctro magnetic around your hard drive... Lol. Then they don't know what you deleted! Just make sure you scrub Google regularly too! VPN's are a must, even on your cell... Just saying! And oh, for heaven's sake, don't use your real info on anything! Get a Google phone# because it's only attached to an email, no physical address or person! Can choose your area code too! Lol clone your IMEI/MSN and put your phones around the country, plugged in of course so the batteries don't die and they'll never find you, Hahaha... There are ways to keep off the grid... It just takes some work, and most of us are too lazy, or not really involved with anything that requires going dark. But who uses FB anyway? You gotta be crazy! Hahaha

 

[BDinPutnam]

Not obstruction if the drive is encrypted. All still there -- just unavailable to read.

I got a guy for that.

 

[Shadow2]

about time I delete my facebook again, do it every so often show a pattern like a stoke sell off right before bad news sends prices plummeting. But your honor it was a scheduled sell off unrelated to insider trading.

 

[Acer-m14]

so who scrubbed whats his name shit from the last shooting .. wasn't him ..

 

[Celt]

News flash, any prosecutor will charge you with obstruction if you delete anything from your computer and you are arrested. Even if you have done it as a matter of 'maintenance'.

If you clear your cookies....obstruction.

If you delete any account...obstruction

If you clear your browser history...obstruction

Unless your last name is Clinton.


I remember a member on here talkin about trying to get his pistol permit and the government agency responsible for it in his County required him to write down his Facebook account login and password on the application. I think it was in Saratoga if I remember correctly.

 

[Marine Cpl]

This just promted me to finally get off my ass and do it. I rarely go on there anymore and I've been considering it. I deleted it permanently. (Will take 30 days they say.)

I opened a new messenger account (they allow you to do it without opening a main Facebook account) in a different name for the sole reason of only video calling my mother since I don't have an iPhone.

 

[Acer-m14]

whats on the net is on the net no matter what you do now ..

shit they found Fords ugly pic from HS .. why delete now LOL ..

stay and fight till you get FB jailed and then come back to do it a gain ..

 

[Acer-m14]

I opened a new messenger account (they allow you to do it without opening a main Facebook account) in a different name for the sole reason of only video calling my mother since I don't have an iPhone.

you think ZUkAssBurg isnt saving that too ... hey mom .. im havin a bad day here .. fkin bills out the ass .. . phone blowing up .. i'm depressed .. just a Murphy law .. what can , may happen ..

 

[Marine Cpl]

you think ZUkAssBurg isnt saving that too ... hey mom .. im havin a bad day here .. fkin bills out the ass .. . phone blowing up .. i'm depressed .. just a Murphy law .. what can , may happen ..

Maybe. But very unlikely compared to actual posts that are out there in text for everyone to see. I realize that what's on the net is on the net but I've been thinking of deleting it anyway for some time now. I rarely go on anyway. No use in keeping it just for the sake of keeping it and so that they could look at it.

 

[Acer-m14]

@Willjr75 i keep FB for just Fam and some close friends and to follow the gun shooting hunting folks there .. pro shooters on FB .. Julie Golob .. and others ..
junior shooters in 3gun .. we gotta stay in the fight .. if you like FB or not .. or this .. got her on FB too ..

 

[Marine Cpl]

@Willjr75 i keep FB for just Fam and some close friends and to follow the gun shooting hunting folks there .. pro shooters on FB .. Julie Golob .. and others ..
junior shooters in 3gun .. we gotta stay in the fight .. if you like FB or not .. or this .. got her on FB too ..

If you want to follow certain people or groups, I understand that. But "We gotta stay in this fight."? I don't get that. What fight are you talking about that having Facebook is going to help you defeat?

I never use it so what will I do for the fight if I keep it but don't use it?