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Dahleen Glanton: A special prosecutor is poring over Jussie Smollett's Google records. Should we be OK with that?

It's hard to find anyone who doesn't despise Jussie Smollett. In the unjust court of public opinion, he has been convicted of being a lying race-baiter and sentenced to eternal damnation.

But it's time for a reality check. Now that a judge has ordered Google to turn over Smollett's emails, photos, location data and private messages to investigators, we need to think about how far we're willing to go to see to it that he ends

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