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DON'T TEASE ME BRO!

Nothing screams “we believe our guy to be innocent and completely exonerated by the investigation” than trying to smear the investigator.

You see how the Republican smear machine works?

Al Gore never claimed to have invented it; he said that he "took the initiative" in helping create it, which was absolutely true: he sponsored legislation, lobbied for high speed telecommunications infrastructure, and was instrumental in providing the government support it needed to get off the ground.

His GOP political opponents couldn't stand for him to have an accomplishment like that make them look bad by comparison, so they embellished what he said into having claimed to have "invented" it, and began to mock and ridicule him for something he never said.

So one of his greatest accomplishments in office is now seen as a joke and stain on his character and truthfulness, when in fact the people attacking him for it are the ones being untruthful.

Bam! You're in the All Spin Zone!

No, but this person could simply be an ethnic Korean born in China who has never been to either Korea. That's why people don't consider the identity card to be sufficient proof.

How would it be a crime? They often release them. Many are publicly available from the NTSB web site.