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We can see that with the claim that Trump is encouraging people to kill Hillary again. All he said was, she is against guns, let her go for a while without armed bodyguards. Hillary should have been indicted, and Sanders running instead, but the investigation into her was purposefully hobbled right from the beginning. Anyone else, the evidence would have been put to a grand jury. While not the best source, this list is pretty damning, as was her refusal to turn over the actual server, and instead sort through the emails herself to see what would be turned over, which she had no right to do.

I suppose you probably don't know anything about the "Journolist" scandal, the collusion, and attempts to influence a presidential election?

The fix was in

You can't really enjoy porn in public...

Maybe you can't... http://nypost.com/2016/09/11/b...

[Republicans are] all owned by corporations and do their bidding.

Have you been avoiding the news recently?

Google Clinton and "pay for play", or Clinton and "foundation", or Clinton and "Wikileaks". (Or just wait a week or so for that last one.)

Here's cash flowing into the Clinton Foundation from corporations benefiting from selling Uranium to Russia.

Here's cash flowing into the Clinton Foundation from corporations benefiting from selling dual use technology (private and military uses) to Russia.

Here's $17 million that disappeared from the Clinton Foundation.

We've complained for years that the political elite is owned by the corporations, and that there's no difference between having a D or R after a candidate's name.

Don't blame corruption on just the Republicans, it's not intellectually honest and distracts people from the true problems.

My Vegan Diet Almost Killed Me talks about orthorexia, which stems from "righteous fixation on healthy eating". Lets not forget Death by Veganism where two vegan parents were convicted of murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty to their 6 month old child. Anecdotally, I have a vegetarian friend whose pediatrician told her she needed to start eating meat to promote the health and growth of her infant. The diet has worked well for her for years (decades?), yet when faced with breastfeeding, it just wasn't high enough on proteins the kid could use for growing up.

Everyone's body chemistry is different and we all have different dietary needs. You could have also pointed out those regions whose diets typically result in longer lifetimes (read: basically every diet that isn't "American"). As can be seen here:

The lower mortality from ischemic heart disease among vegetarians was greater at younger ages and was restricted to those who had followed their current diet for >5 y. Further categorization of diets showed that, in comparison with regular meat eaters, mortality from ischemic heart disease was 20% lower in occasional meat eaters, 34% lower in people who ate fish but not meat, 34% lower in lactoovovegetarians, and 26% lower in vegans. There were no significant differences between vegetarians and nonvegetarians in mortality from cerebrovascular disease, stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, or all other causes combined.

From this study we see that an asian diet (lots of vegetables, some fish, very little red meat) is actually better that strict veganism.

While I haven't actually read all of the articles you linked, I would suggest that lowering the amount of deep fried foods, fatty red meat, and focusing more on fish and vegetables would be promote overall health for a wider number of people.

"Canada does not have an FBI equivalent"

Everything that the FBI is capable of doing, the RCMP can do just as well. I'd call it equivalent.

"We like our policy makers separate from enforcement that you very much"

You think policy makers and enforcement officials don't talk to each other? Cute.

Yep!

A tip from the FBI triggered what Canadian police on Thursday called a “race against time” as police scrambled to identify and locate a balaclava-wearing would-be suicide bomber they feared was on the verge of committing a terror attack in Canada.

https://nypost.com/2016/08/11/...

I'm 100% certain that the Clintons are savvy enough that everything is totally legal, and that 95% went to the best charities.

The Clinton Foundation is a charity, and here's some information everyone should know about it: Charity watchdog: Clinton Foundation a 'slush fund'

Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e... CLASSIFIED: Security Expert on Hillary Clinton's Email Scandal Stefan Molyneux https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux Stefan Molyneux https://www.youtube.com/watch?... DNC, wikileaks, dead staffer, so many to pick from.... what's embarassing is that Trump people are digging into these while all Hillary has is supposed gaffs and mining twitter ......

I find this angle of attack amusing because most people would only dream to be as much of a "business failure" as Trump. We know the track record of lottery winners, the fact is even with seed money, most don't do anything with it or fail. And of course its absurd when comparing to candidates with ZERO business experience of note. Hillary's rigged elections didn't start with Sanders, she was given a safe seat once a democrat had stepped down by the establishment machine, and then she was simply appointed for her next post. Her only success is corruption, aka pay to play via the Clinton foundation where billions have been funneled through for less than charitable purposes. But of course these things go uncovered in any real way because it takes an hour just to explain the basics. The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8 Nypost tried but the news cycle is more fixated on supposed gaffs than substance. Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e... I mean really, wikiwut? Oh Assange is just an MRA, don't ask questions anymore....

Yes yes, exposing the DNC and all that Clinton corruption was the work of that "MRA" Julian Assange http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2... Because anyone against Hillary Clinton is a racist, sexist, mra, gamergater, and just kicks children, everybody knows this! Even "berniebros" were just misogynists who hated women and so instead supported an old communist jew!! Yes that's the ticket! The fact that he blew the lid open on DNC corruption, press collusion and Clinton Foundation shennigans, well why look into that, lets just call people names. Never mind the whole thing about the DNC staffer being murdered, and now fingered as the leaker.... "trump's the real danger" https://twitter.com/magnifier6... Funny how both attack/assassination attempts were on Trump, not Clinton. Most every attack/attempt to shut down a rally is by rabid leftists. Just in the last two days a man was beaten with a crowbar for wearing a Trump shirt. Anyways, things which matter The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8 Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e... Clinton's private server held emails about nuclear 'spy' executed in Iran: Aides discussed scientist 'friend' and his decision to return home after defecting to the U.S. for $5m http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://thefederalist.com/2016/... https://youtu.be/8acghuIfLTE Julian Assange exposes Google's political ties to Hillary Clinton & Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?... http://theralphretort.com/bust... http://theralphretort.com/bust... Its no surprise people so smug get their information from 20 minute comedy news shows these days....

Trump doesn't want his friend Putin and his friends to get tied to this too much.

Did you do know that Clinton (as SoS) sold 20% of American Uranium reserves to Russia, and coincidentally the Clinton foundation received massive donations from Russia?

Did you know that Clinton (as SoS) sold advanced technology to Russia and coincidentally received "tens of millions" of dollars in donations to the Clinton foundation? (Dual-use technology, things that can be used for both industry and military.)

Did you know that Clinton (as SoS) organized and helped build the "Russian Silicon Valley", which opened many US companies to industrial espionage? (17 of 28 companies, both Russian and American, made financial commitments to the Clinton Foundation or sponsored speeches by Bill Clinton.)

Out of curiosity, when you say Trump and Putin are friends, what's your evidence?

Because nobody could figure out a way to scam freebies off airlines first class programs.

Many? You must have about a thousand links to back that up then?

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

What really gets me is this link - https://nypost.com/2015/10/11/...

So-called "experts" are telling us that it is reasonable that children with toys are shot and killed. I insist that it is NOT reasonable for children with toys to be killed.

How 'bout that latest incident, in which a mentally handicapped boy was holding a TOY TRUCK, the officer shot at him, and instead hit the boy's caretaker/guardian/counselor?

Yeah, stupid kids get killed all the time, but it is unacceptable that we allow idiot cops to do the killing.

And this just came in.

Apparently the Clinton foundation took in tons of donation money in return for letting the Russians get access to advanced technology.

From that article:

“The Clintons, they get their donations and speaking fees in the millions of dollars. The Russians get access to advanced US technology. The tech companies [that participated in the reset, including Cisco, Intel, Microsoft] get special access to the Russian market and workforce.

“But the American people get nothing. In fact, we get a rival — Russia — with enhanced technological capabilities. At best, that makes them a tougher competitor [in legitimate commerce],” Schweizer said.

“At worst, they get a more robust military, with technologies that we helped develop, and that can be sold to our enemies.”

Sad.

I didn't know who Thiel was before this happened, and now that I do I still support that side. All Thiel did was fund Hogan in the case over what Gawker actually did, deserved punishment for, and would probably have gotten a slap on the wrist for otherwise. It isn't like he orchestrated some 8 year long clandestine master plan to manipulate Gawker into posting sex tapes and ignoring court orders.

You left out lying to the court:

Judge blasts Nick Denton for lying about Gawker stock value

A Florida judge said Gawker founder Nick Denton “misled” the court about the value of his company — and punished him by ruling that Hulk Hogan could start seizing his assets.

Denton told Judge Pamela Campbell in June that Gawker Media Group, Inc. was worth $276 million.

...

Based on that representation Campbell agreed to the offer—only to learn later that the stock was worth closer to $30 million.

“Mr Dentonmisled this court in connection with [his] pledge of Gawker Media Group, Inc. stock by concealing material information about the value of that stock which a reasonable person, under the circumstances, should have disclosed,” Campbell says in the order.

What Denton did not disclose is that he’d already prepared to file bankruptcy on behalf of Gawker and had pledged to sell the company for just $90 million.

That sale price meant that Denton’s share was worth under $30 million—not the $81 million he cited to the court.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the nude photos of Trump's wife.

But those aren't pornography, they're Art(tm).

He's probably just upset now about all the nude photos of his wife now that it's an inconvenience.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the nude photos of Trump's wife.

Except that the Russians exposed the DNC corruption scandal just a few days ago.

Where's your source on this. Julian Assange made a statement just a couple days where is specifically did not identify the source of the leaked material.

"Asked about claims that Russian intelligence had hacked the DNC to obtain the emails, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told NBC Newsâ(TM) Richard Engel âoethere is no proof of that whatsoeverâ and said âoethis is a diversionâ pushed by the Clinton campaign."

- http://nypost.com/2016/07/25/j...

Are you kidding? Just google "airbnb horror stories", even the huffington post has an article about this.

Like this you mean?

(Do study, how to embed links in your own Slashdot postings.)

More severely retarded politicians get into government and make their populations vulnerable by refusing to see blatant cause-effect relationships between a global terrorism movement and the ideology driving it. All across Europe and North America there are politicians so desperate to prove their own tolerance that they are rapidly importing into their societies people who despise the principles those societies were built upon. Then when the imported persons commiot violent acts, these same know-nothing elites lie their asses off about what happened and hide evidence, even denying basic facts after the public becomes aware.

Just look at the German government. They imported this stuff into Germany and on New Years as over a thousand German women were raped or molested by immigrants the Germena governemt exercised more effort covering it up than protecting its own people.

Look at France, where it has now been found that the French government hid the details of the tortures that happened at the Bataclan massacre.

Look at the Obama administration that tries to re-paint every Muslim terrorist attack as "gun violence", "man-caused disaster", "workplace violence" and so forth. This very same administration rushed to the nearest microphone to denounce any opponent as a racist or bigot (as long as he/she is NOT Muslim).

The truly voluntarily-menatlly-crippled are the ones that refuse to see the obvious connection between a belief system that teaches that anybody who disagrees must be subjugated or killed, that no man-made law is valid, that a woman is 1/2 or 1/4 the value of a man depending on if she is testifying in court or exercising any other right, etc. and the violent terrorism its adherents have been carrying out all over the globe. The idiots are the ones who have no solution as the bodies pile up like wood at a sawmill and who only get exercised when somebody points out that the emperor is naked (i.e. Islam is as its name indicates: a religion of SUBMISSION, not "peace") and that it has a centuries-long reputation for violent jihad pricisely because it's "prophet" specifically taugh and practised violent jihad. The complete horse posteriors are the people who would denounce somebody like Gingrich who ties cause to effect, who whine about how mean he is, or what a jerk he is, while having absolutely no solution to the problem of muslims who can, at any moment, decide to become serious Muslims and faithfully carry out the commands of their prophet to go on a killing spree.

The US Marine Corps was created by the Continental Congress in November 1775, even before the US was officially an independent nation. Marines are called "leathernecks" for a reason: they had leather collars on their uniforms to make it harder to behead them. They were originally sent into two struggles: (a) the fight against the British, and (b) the fight against the Barbary Pirates (Muslims who were taking American merchants as hostages) which is where the leather collars came into the story. The Marine Corps sing about the "shores of Tripoli" in memory of those early fights in Libya rescuing Americans from Muslim pirates.

The Christian Crusades started in response the the Islamic take-over of the Biblical Holy Lands and the subjugation of the Christians there and the sacking of Christian churches.

Islam has a demonstrated history of wave after wave of bloody massacres and violence ever since it was founded about 7 centuries after Christianity arose. History teaches that it

If that is what you think Clinton's supporters objection of Trump is, this discussion is not worth continuing

This — preference for comely females — was the only thing, that the authors of the NY Times hit piece were able to come up with.

Charges of "racism" and "fascism" are entirely ridiculous...

Enjoy your bubble

Apologies (insincere) for having burst yours. Evidence of Hillary Clinton getting a very special treatment by the FBI keeps coming up...

Yo ass-hole:

"None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail." http://nypost.com/2016/07/05/f...

"The Espionage Act prescribes lengthy prison terms for government officials who cause classified material to be moved to an unsecured location, either willfully or through 'gross negligence." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Yeah but distorting reality is not just about money with people, it's about power and ideology. I used ot think like you- I thought the consultations of disinterested experts would yield the best policy results. But look at what's happened in academia. There you have a petri dish of what can happen when experts are left to rule themselves. What do we have? We have a system which attacks real experts for wearing the wrong shirt at a press conference,

http://nypost.com/2014/11/17/t...

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

the systematic silencing of scientific facts and researchers by a determined minority of "Stepford Students":

http://quillette.com/2015/03/2...

who can't even grasp the basics of logical consistent thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

and a "ruling class' of administrators who are either outright sympathetic to the minority of zealots or too cucky to attempt to stop them.

That is literally what academia has in fact produced in the way of an ordering principle for their own subculture, their society-in-a-petri-dish.

Do you really want ot export that to the larger society.,

http://abcnews.go.com/US/red-l...

And for shortened Yellows when cameras are installed to counter the second argument you make:

http://nypost.com/2012/10/08/c...

And thank God for that! We all know that Shakespeare (who is a fraud anyway) is a form of white men's oppression on society; yet another example of the evils of patriarchy! Happy Fathers' Day!

We are suffering from self-radicalized lone-wolves according to our President. And he must be right, or else the enlightened Europeans would've never honored him with the Nobel Peace Prize.

I found this to be an interesting idea of why he isn't quitting yet. Basically, they hypothesize the Sanders is having the most excitement he's ever had in his life.....much more than the rallies in Vermont. And people are actually listening to him. All the attention is intoxicating.

Like I know if that's true.

Putting on my tin-foil hat, perhaps this is why Yahoo spent an extra $500,000 on security just for her and family.

So what was "wrong" with telling the world what a racist, immoral piece of shit that Hulk Hogan is?
And boo hoo, he can't pretend to be a wrestler anymore as he's not much of a role model now is he?

First... get with the times, calling her 'Hillary' is sexist.... doubly so when you only used last names of two other people.

Are you still going on about this email thing

I wasn't, I was replying to a comment of someone who was... and also citing a quote from the FBI director who currently has an investigation into the matter.

when there are real scandals like the Pfizer donations after Hillary decided to drop penalties and all the stuff about Hillary that came out with the Manning leak?

There are also the whole Clinton Cash allegations... and thanks to the FBI having her email server and having allegedly been able to recover all of the deleted emails, we may soon hear more about that just as soon as they interview her and wrap up their investigation.

Funny how the email was not a big deal with Palin but it is with Hillary

Nice false equivalency you've got there... or are you suggesting Palin not only had access to classified information, but allowed it to traverse her unsecured private account as we know Clinton did?

The reason for Palin not being a scandal is probably for the same reason the Governor of Washington state admitting to using private email to conduct official business from time to time, and it's not just the matter of access to/misuse of classified information... but state vs federal law.

but it's still just being lazy instead of going after real scandals that are far worse.

Somehow, I imagine the FBI is able to walk & chew bubblegum at the same time, and given the # of agents that are on the case I am sure they have enough resource to investigate multiple directions related to Clinton's lawbreaking.

Republicans predicted he would do, and which he and his supporters previously said he would not. Every time his critics predict he will do something contrary to the national interest, he and his moronic sycophant supporters insist he won't and call those critics liars. Then a year or more later he does it. For progressives, the ends justify the means and there are no fixed standards, particularly for honesty. Now he and his people are so arrogant they are publicly laughing at how stupid and gullible their own liberal friends in the media are and how easily they were manipulated on the Iran deal.

Nothing new here; the record of Obama administration dishonesty and making Uncle Sam wearing a "kick me" sign on his back continues.

Who does Obama trust with nukes? Russia, China, Iran, North Korea... (the evil tyrannical governments)

Who does Obama not trust with nukes? The men and women of the US Military (who volunteer to serve the Constitution and follow the orders of leaders elected by the people)

Some official statistics may look decent, but the labor-force participation (a figure not prone to fudging like politically redefined unemployment) is the lowest it has been since 1978.

With over 94 million not even looking for work — and thus not included in the unemployment statistics — we can afford less and less non-necessities.

With the constantly rising food-prices and the incomes of those still working stalling, expect further declines.

Socialism — measured as the part of the GDP spent by government — sucks.

Clinton Foundation went from watchlist, to "we don't how to evaluate such an odd foundation". http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/c...

Also very clear that some rather non-benevolent people gave them money for favors from the state department.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...
http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-p...

She ignored violence against union members in Columbia for a bribe. Charming.
http://www.ibtimes.com/colombi...

It went from watchlist, to "we don't how to evaluate such an odd foundation". http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/c...

Also very clear some rather non-benevolent people gave them money for favors from the state department.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...
http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-p...

This Poll

Via the New York Post:

Several US officials spoke about the cyber campaign on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. Much of the effort is classified.

If they aren't authorized to talk about it publicly then they need to be quiet, wtf.

Via the New York Post:

US officials confirmed that operations launched out of Fort Meade have focused on disrupting the group’s online activities. The officials said the effort is getting under way as operators try a range of attacks to see what works and what doesn’t. They declined to discuss details, other than to say that the attacks include efforts to prevent the group from distributing propaganda, videos, or other types of recruiting and messaging on social media sites such as Twitter, and across the Internet in general. Other attacks could include attempts to stop insurgents from conducting financial or logistical transactions online. Several US officials spoke about the cyber campaign on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. Much of the effort is classified.

I've been a long-time (and happy) Pebble wearer, from the first Kickstarter model to the Pebble Time Steel (color). But I'd been keeping an eye on Apple Watch, and last week I made the jump.

Why?

The biggest driver is that Apple Watch has amazing app support, while Pebble's app support are "OK". Not only does the Apple Watch have many more apps, the apps are better integrated. In part this is because of the APIs (Pebble's SDKs are very good, but Apple's are better, and very easy for iOS developers to work with), but I think the largest issue is market share - developers are clearly putting more effort into Apple Watch apps than Pebble Apps. From reports, Apple Watch is something like 75% of the smart watch market share (e.g. http://nypost.com/2015/07/30/a...), making it hard for developers to justify investing in competing platforms. And Pebble, while having an early lead in developers (very nice SDK, etc.) is showing very little new third-party app support - most Pebble apps are released and then never updated, and Pebble having layoffs after a series of price drops is probably not a great sign of their future.

In addition, the quality of the Apple Watch hardware (case, bands and display), are worlds better than Pebble. It's a beautiful watch and band, with a brilliant display, while the Pebble Time Steel is a good looking watch case, the display is quite slow and washed out. So yes, Apple Watch costs a little more ($299 is the least expensive Apple Watch which is metal body, plastic band, color display, while the cheapest Pebble (plastic, B&W) is $99, $199 for the Pebble Time Round, $249 for the Pebble Time Steel).

Really the main thing going for Pebble is the lower price for the low-end units, and longer battery life. Both of those are good things, and I think that Pebble will have a market segment just based on that. At least, I hope so. But the nicer Pebbles cost almost as much as the Apple Watch, and for battery life, the Apple Watch lasts two days, and charges so fast that I can wear it all day and night (for sleep monitoring), and charge sufficiently in the morning while getting dressed that it's not an issue.

My conclusion was that I am only going to wear one watch, and I want that watch to have a great display, and I'm willing to put up with charging every day. So Apple Watch wins.

It sure looks like Hillary Clinton engaged in a conspiracy to migrate classified information off of the secure network and onto her insecure email server. She instructed subordinates to summarize information and send it as new emails, which of course were not marked as classified.

She's not dumb and she's a lawyer, so she knew what she was doing was illegal.

In the first e-mail, Clinton curtly instructs Sullivan, "It's a public statement. Just email it." Minutes later, Sullivan responds, "Trust me, I share your exasperation. But until ops converts it to the unclassified email system, there is no physical way for me to email it. I can't even access it."

"ops" means the "operations" group in the State Department, where apparently Hillary Clinton had people reading emails on the secure system and then sending a summary to her insecure server. "converting" to the unclassified email system.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423417/hillary-staffer-wary-sending-classified-info-just-email-it-andrew-c-mccarthy

http://nypost.com/2016/01/24/hillarys-team-copied-intel-off-top-secret-server-to-email/

Some of the emails were "SAP" classified. Some were "HCS-O".

http://bigstory.ap.org/e19abf78b6fe43e7b7719f059901630d

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3413033/Hillary-s-emails-contained-classified-information-HUMAN-SPYING-State-Department-says-won-t-meet-deadline-publish-emails.html

If that last story is correct, Hillary Clinton's personal email server could have lead to disastrous consequences or death for real human beings. We're way, way beyond anything excusable.

a gay man is XY, has male body parts, and self-identifies as male

Ah, so the chromosomes and the body parts do play their part. Very good... Unfortunately, you chose to add the "self-identification" part into it too — despite my warning against it.

Because, if — as logical consistency demands — we take your approach to other cases of delusion, we'll have to agree, that this White woman is not White, and this human is not human. They both do not identify as what they appear, and thus — by your definition — are not that... (Not to mention the various other sufferers, who similarly "self-identify as" Napoleon Bonaparte and similar figures.)

Having thus shown your approach as self-inconsistent, I don't even need to creatively redefine, what "winning an argument" means — nor claim to identify as victor in this little debate of ours. I simply am. Remember to logout.

I did invent it.

Thank you for this admission. But we are still conversing in English and reinventing terms to mean something new is not acceptable.

There are simply men and women. If, despite having been born with distinctive genitalia, someone considers himself to be of the opposite sex, then they suffer from a delusion:

a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary

My recent argument with one such person ended, when I asked him to define terms: what is the definition of the term "man"?

If you choose to reply to this, be sure to include your definition. And, no, do not try to imply some difference between "sex" and "gender" — they are synonyms (except when talking about grammar rules).

And, no, contrasting what you are vs. how you identify is bullshit too — unless you are prepared to treat this human as a cat, and this White woman as Black.

Your mental visual is entertaining. It's not like you describe it but does indeed happen that I am looked askance as I described.

My worry is that the activities mentioned in OPs post will serve to magnify this effect into something that has more of a detrimental impact on individuals innocent of wrong-doing other than being born male.

As another sonewhat related example, women are parading through city streets with nothing but tape on their nipples and being applauded as heros, while a man that helped land a probe on a comet is required to apologize for his shirt.

https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
http://nypost.com/2014/11/17/t...

I just see this getting worse.

Wait, what is important here is are the engineers' shirts are ideologically correct?!

Would you or have worked on tech which could enable torture?

You may be expecting an unqualified "no", but the right answer is it depends. The unacceptable kinds of torture are those, which leave the subject dead or damaged. (And I mean real damage — not as in "needs counseling"). It may be useful to confine the definition of "torture" to such methods only — as was done by some people already.

Waterboarding is certainly not damaging — a rough arrest by a police may be far more harmful to the suspect — and still be justified. Likewise, a prolonged criminal investigation may be far more damaging psychologically. And don't even get me started on the exploding use of "Hellfire" missiles (pun intended) by the highest-placed opponent of waterboarding:

no president has ever relied so extensively on the secret killing [emphasis mine -mi] of individuals to advance the nation’s security goals.

Don't know about you, but I'd rather be waterboarded by mistake, than killed by the same mistake.

Dealing with the government is rarely pleasant, but waterboarding does not cross any real lines. If the duly-elected President charged with protecting us deems it necessary, his subordinates better get on with it. Or resign. As George Orwell pointed out decades ago:

"Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Where does that put you morally and ethically?

Whether it is useful is another question, but "morally and ethically" there is nothing wrong with it. Deal with that.

Or Mark Zuckerberg or the Koch Brothers or anyone else who has millions/billions and don't want to pay taxes on the money.

In countries, that do not tax wealth, only your actual income matters to your tax-bill. What you already have is irrelevant.

After all, I'm sure there's not a single Republican lawmaker who's upset at Bill Clinton for having such great economic success [...]

Whether other politicians are squeaky clean or not, you've got to admit, the Clinton Foundation racket is something special — not just for the scale, but also for the brazenness of it...

Third party keys are never safe, here's two real-world examples:

The $8 key that can open New York City to terrorists

Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos

For digital keys all that needs to happen is the bad guys to identify who has access to them then kidnap their family members - "give us the keys or your daughter dies".

It depends on what the US gov finally got.
What is public is the request was for a computer related solution that would fit on any gov hard drive and open any branded phone.
Portable to take to any city, state, county, other nation and fully access any waiting phone.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/02/f... (March 2, 2016)
"“The request we got from the government in this case is, ‘Take this tool and put it on a hard drive, send it to the FBI,’ and they’d load it onto their computer,”"

Yes it would have been interesting to see the demand to be conscripted per phone to having to create gov ready software for all phones of a generation within a brand.
The gov ready master key that gave a gov worker or contractor access to any phone in a generation from any gov computer.
http://nypost.com/2016/03/02/f... (March 2, 2016)
"“The request we got from the government in this case is, ‘Take this tool and put it on a hard drive, send it to the FBI,’ and they’d load it onto their computer,” "

http://nypost.com/2016/03/29/y...