mattnewport comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong
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What sense of 'criminal' are you using here? Presumably not 'convicted of a crime by a court' since that is relatively rare for politicians. Do you mean 'have committed acts that are against the law but have not been prosecuted' or do you mean 'have committed acts that in my view are/should-be-viewed-as criminal but have not actually broken the law technically'?
He has publicly admitted to ordering violations of the FISA statute, a felony, so certainly "have committed acts that are against the law but have not been prosecuted".