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But you can arrest individuals who, using their office, engage in felonies. If this is organizational, i believe we could use RICO.


Only if it's unsanctioned. Like Watergate.

But if the government as an official approved sanctioned policy directs an employee to do an action (like, hack into Facebook's servers), good luck trying to get that employee arrested. The government may be doing illegal acts, but no one can be arrested over those since they are sanctioned by the two law making branches of government (executive and congress).




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