Only to a liberal lawyer like you who makes excuses for political reasons for one of their own.
Citing the opinion of the FBI isn't making excuses. It's just noting the fact of it.
The liberal nonsense is, I suspect, an extension of that same problem you have with usage. You believe it so it must be. But that doesn't make it so. As with conservatives, there's a lot I admire in liberal thinking, but no, thank you. I mostly vote conservatively and register Republican here because that's where our best candidates are, by and large (with glaring, Jeff Sessions-esque, exceptions) especially in the judiciary. But I'm a moderate who isn't wedded to a party lever pull.
If MarK Levin former chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese under Ronald Reagan calls the woman a felon (and he has publicly on his radio & TV show), than it is good enough for me.
One fellow can call property theft and another use theft to describe taxes. But they still aren't, it's just how they feel about it.
You can spin it any way you please counselor
No, that's what happens when you step past the fact and conflate feeling with it.
A felon is someone convicted of a felony. You're conflating your conviction with the legal variety.
and I am quite sure that there are plenty of people that you do respect that have the same opinion as I or Levin for that matter.
I respect any number of people who get things wrong, because at one point or another all of us do. But I can't respect an opinion at odds with the plain truth.
I am curious though would you also say that Al Capone was only a tax evader?
No, I wouldn't. I'd say all sorts of things about Capone. But if you removed that conviction I wouldn't call him a felon, because he wouldn't be. He'd be any number of things odious and objectionable, but not a felon.