I wrote a few days ago about the overreaching federal prosecution in this sad case. Blogger Susan Crawford has a good explanation today of just how great the stretch is, and how far the same principle could be taken by ambitious prosecutors to criminalize speech acts never meant to be prohibited by any existing law.

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