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Originally Posted by zukiphile
I'd add that the "clarification" the agency offers isn't benign or a clarification at all. It's an expansion. The underlined language is the statutory formula. The bolded language is an expansion.
It isn't, or shouldn't be, within executive authority to legislatively expand criminal liability.
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They aren't expanding on the law. They're just defining the definition.
It reminds me of the report I read several years ago about a police officer who explained to a reporter that he had done something (which was apparently unlawful) because he was "investigating an investigation."