Smear campaigns become criminal when they use FBI/DOJ informants, assets, set-ups, databases, methods, foreign agents without FARA, wiretapping and bureaucrats to influence elections or when they are part of a removal from office attempts.
Smear campaigns become criminal when they use FBI/DOJ informants, assets, set-ups, databases, methods, foreign agents without FARA, wiretapping and bureaucrats to influence elections or when they are part of a removal from office attempts.