dragnet. that ambiguous definition of aiding abetted lead the da to draw this conclusion. it is so wide now that federal employees, like the defense department or issues of medicare and medicaid services, refugee programs, the labor department, the idea of all these different things, job core he named are presumably under that same dragnet, that federal liabilities could be under civil liability because they re carrying out their own directives. he talked about the idea of the supremacy clause which says there is a hierarchy and constitution and federal law is up there, but also about the idea of the doctrine of intragovernmental immunity. a fancy way of saying you don t get to intrude on our rights and the federal government to carry out our responsibilities. so in this way, that same tactic of having a very vague, very broad definition to aid and abet, it is exactly what invited