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i can t. you know, we dealt with this in the rolling stone case that we prosecuteded, the uva fake gang rape that a woman on campus told a reporter at rolling stone. now, she did not make a false report to the police. she never reported that rape to the police. and therefore the police didn t have a basis to bring charges against that woman. here, that s a different thing, than mr. smollett. if he, in fact, made up this attack and reported it to police, that is a basis for not only state charges but also federal charges. if any of the conduct that he engaged in, impacted internet xwhers or was in interstate commerce. there s a federal angle, too. tucker: interesting it s not a question of how the police responded, law enforcement responds, but also the people covering it, the press. there is instinct to protect the false accuser, the person spreading hatred and distrust. in the case you were involved in
and that s a fact worth remembering, the next time the government and the new york times align to assure that you something is absolutely true. for real. may not be true. it often isn t true. but for a broaderenes, to whether it was worth broader answer, there is a new two-volume, 1,300 page study of the war and its consequences produced by the army war college and released last month. to very little notice of the conclusions are grim. years of warfare in iraq nailed to create a thriving democracy or stable government. much vaunted coalition of allies didn t work very well, since most allies sent only token forces, too few to be useful. a handful of countries did the real work. keep that in mind when they tell you how critical nato is. for the most damning part of the report is its conclusion that the iraq war really only had one winner, the winner was not america, it wasn t iraq, according to the report s authors, quote, emboldened and expansionist iran appears to be
penalty for it eventually. sure. it sounds like mr. smollett has been charged with giving a false report to the police. as your reporter r just noted, there s a possible three year sentence that mr. smollett could face jail time and this is a very serious charge and in my perspective these kinds of hoaxes commit if mr. smollett did in fact make up this allegation and did in fact engage in this reporting to the police and wasted police resources, he should in fact go to jail and spend time inin jai. too many of these hoaxes are not prosecuted and we need some deterrence here. tucker: so that really kind of is the point. there s a long list of people who have been hurt by theseee hoaxes. but there seems a pretty short list of the people who have been held accountable for perpetrating them. can you think of another example where someone s going to prison
expansionist iran appears to be war.sionist iran appears to be will any of these lessons get noticed in washington? will most nobody has paid any price at all for embroiling thia country in the iraq disaster. the biggest advocates of the war are stillar around. and amazingly, many are still influential. bill kristol, john bolton. many of these people want to repeat the iraq war on a larger scale if they can in syria or libya or yemen or venezuela or iran itself. they learned nothing. and they may get their chance to do it again but before they do they ought to write a book report on the army war college report. isis has been all but destroyed in syria and now followers who gleefully abandoned the west and went over there to help her trying to slink back home. one of them fled the u.s. to join the caliphate and marion isis fighter. now she says she deserves to return without any serious