If she falsified government records she broke federal law, that's unchanged, we don't normally pursue such cases unless people had malicious or fraudulent intent, but you miss my train of thought on this. I'm ticked the cops are being vilified and sued, doesn't mean I want her thrown in a dungeon. I don't see how they could be considered in the wrong to have mentioned marriage, since that's essentially a legal fiction no matter how you cut it. Everyone knows you can't be a married gay in the service, so they knew she was breaking the rules, and I've never heard of marriage being considered something people have an expectation of privacy on. Jurisdictional concerns etc have never been something I approve of hiding behind and I don't change my views on this sort of stuff just because on a specific occasion the laws conflict with ideology. Let's not dance around what a bunch of people in this thread are doing, if this was a man who caught got committing bigamy by having a wife in S. Korea and one here, we'd all be sneering at him and even the ACLU probably wouldn't touch it, that has certainly happened and probably in this exact same fashion. So there's a pretty big stink of hypocrisy going on. And if people want to throw out legal technicalities to justify this lawsuit, I'm happy to throw out others.

Again, this doesn't mean I think she needs to be nailed to a tree, so no, I don't think I'm backtracking. Like I've said, there's a lot of bizarre legal weirdness that result from DADT, and I don't approve, but I don't like running over cops with a steamroller if they enforce laws I consider immoral either, which they really didn't do. I don't like drug laws, I don't think we should grab any legal excuse to sue the cops for enforcing them though. "Argh, I was coming home from work with an arm full of groceries and the cop who was investigating my next door neighbor saw me and opened my door for me, saw a bunch of counterfeit money and plates lying on my kitchen table, and called the Secret Service, who arrested me for counterfeiting, I'm suing for invasion of privacy!"

And there's the ethical issue, sure, none of us think you should go to jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed your kids, we gonna find something specifically over our anger at the arrest to use an an excuse to sue the cop for arresting the loaf-stealer? We don't have to like the laws, we can gripe about them or work to change them, and people under prosecution can certainly raise techinicalities to get off the charges, but there's a real slippery moral slope when you start using these sort of things as a way of 'getting justice', because it isn't.