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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsForwarding email is a crime, Jerry Falwell Jr. says after leaks to media
Yes, the crazy does get better every day in Conserati-ville. Our religious genius tries to educate the world on technology issues after word of his indiscretions and truly un-Christlike behavior gets out into the mainstream.
High-profile evangelical conservative Jerry Falwell Jr., a staunch Trump supporter and president of Liberty University, wants the FBI to investigate current and former university employees for... forwarding emails.
Falwell claims to have evidence that employees "improperly shared" emails belonging to the university, the Associated Press reports. Falwell said the communications were shared as part of a "criminal" smear campaign and "attempted coup."
Falwell told the AP he contacted the FBI before the story was published, when he learned reporters were reaching out to Liberty employees about the "stolen" emails. "I am going to the authorities and I am going to civil court" over the shared documents, Falwell said.
The emails in question form the cornerstone of a magazine feature Politico ran Monday on Falwell and Liberty University. The story, running under the headline, "Someone's gotta tell the freaking truth," dug into financial arrangements between the Falwell family, the school, and other entities, and it depicted the university as a "dictatorship" under Falwell's thumb.
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Forwarding email is a crime, Jerry Falwell Jr. says after leaks to media (Original Post)
RainCaster
Sep 2019
OP
Well, he shouldn't have sent them from his personal account. You can't claim they were university
vsrazdem
Sep 2019
#4
nutjob thinks cuz he kissed Trump's @$$ he can call on Donnie to persecute people.
Thomas Hurt
Sep 2019
#5
DUgosh
(3,054 posts)1. Boo hoo
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)2. So it's not the information that was shared. The people who told
are the bad ones? Hmmmm. That sounds familiar.
irisblue
(32,916 posts)3. .
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)4. Well, he shouldn't have sent them from his personal account. You can't claim they were university
property if they were sent from your personal email account.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)5. nutjob thinks cuz he kissed Trump's @$$ he can call on Donnie to persecute people.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)6. And, we're all now waiting to see if he's right. nt
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)7. Does anyone else feel like he's circling the drain?
RainCaster
(10,815 posts)8. Circling the bowl is more likely