As the old saying goes, "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything."A few days back, I picked up the LA Times to read an article: "Friend says he and Manafort were criminals" wherein Richard Gates testified that he and Paul Manafort (former Trump Campaign Manager) had engaged in criminal activities. Note: The testimony was that Gates and Manafort conducted criminal activities – not Trump (which goes back to the Judge's comment a while back that this case against Manafort was a witch hunt and not a drive to arrive at justice.I hadn't gotten past the 4th paragraph when the word "TORTURE" popped in my head. I mean, why would anyone admit to having committed criminal activity in a Federal case unless they were being coerced into confessing? Or course, this brings us to the concept of "torture." See, at least twice weekly, I have someone come into my library who has committed some kind…
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