And one day I get an envelope or an email or whatever. Contained within it, I find about 150 pages worth of verifiable information on my opponent proving he/she has engaged in all manner of disreputable behavior. Not just rumors, but stuff that can be proven with the help of the documents themselves.
What am I supposed to do? Just NOT use it?!?! How does that make any sense at all?
I know, it's illegal for foreign agencies to interfere in elections. But that mostly applies to FINANCIAL contributions, vote suppression ... stuff like that. Giving someone TRUE, VERIFIABLE information is NOT "INTERFERENCE". If anything, NOT sharing that information would be "interference".
Look, if you have TRUE information which could reveal unseemly behavior on the part of a candidate, then "interference" is NOT making that information public. WITHHOLDING that information is INTERFERENCE!! Not SHARING it with the other candidate.
As a corollary, suppose I'm not the recipient of the information, but the News Media and the Media reports on it. Or maybe the data just gets posted on the web for all the world to see.
What am I supposed to do? Drop out of the race?
How do people not see that accepting certain forms of help, even from a foreign source, is NOT illegal or improper?
更新1:
Those saying that the law requires I report this to the FBI and not use the information, please cite the specific statute that says this. Frankly, I don't buy it. Any such law would be direct violation of the First Amendment. If I have information, no matter it's source, I have the right to use it. If such a law DOES exist, then it's time to challenge the Constitutionality of such a tyrannical law.
更新2:
People kept saying it was illegal. No one was able to cite an actual statute. Maybe it is, but these people did not prove it.
