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by ty6853 400 days ago
Yet interestingly the USA could put you in jail for wire fraud for 20 years for doing so even if you never interacted with the USA or any US citizens or ever stepped foot on their territory.
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The wire fraud laws seem like they are meant to catch everything?

The law seems to get used whenever the US wants to jail someone it doesn't like (but doesn't have a good reason)

Well there has to be something a little softer than the extrajudicial drone executions.