Posted on 09/28/2018 4:24:25 PM PDT by springwater13
Just like their other tactics throughout this confirmation process, Senate Democrats’ demands for an FBI investigation have never been about getting the facts or finding the truth.
If they were, they would have alerted law enforcement months ago, as soon as they learned of the claims. Instead, they waited until the last minute to leak them in order to delay the vote.
That is why any FBI investigation of the allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh should include potential coordination between the Democrat operatives and lawyers that assisted in bringing them forth.
What Senate Democrats really want is more time to smear Judge Kavanaugh, regardless of the toll it takes on his wife, his daughters, and our country.
Democrats will not suddenly require evidence to declare Judge Kavanaugh guilty of being the worst kind of criminal. They will not suddenly abandon their assumption that all accusations against Republicans are credible and to be believed.
If the FBI turns up nothing significant, they will say what Joe Biden said in 1991, that the FBI does not reach conclusions. They will say the FBI did not have enough time to conduct a thorough investigation.
What they will not do is admit they were wrong to accuse Judge Kavanaugh of being a gang rapist, or a rapist, or a sexual assaulter, or a drunk, or a perjurer, or a hothead unfit for the bench.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Wanna bet
Let’s investigate some of this.
such as, how is it, that the politically naive Christine Ford, ends up with a high powered Democrat connected attorney? Are the rumors that Feinstein recommended Debra Katz to Ford true? Let’s investigate these webs of connections.
I wonder too, how it is, that Stormy Daniels lawyers, just happens to be the lawyer for this Sweatnick(sp?) woman?
If this weren’t so serious, I would have a good laugh that a pornography lawyer has a client who has told us a pornographic movie plot, about boys lined up to take turns to do anything you can imagine with a helpless girl.
Didn't they give Hillary a pass?
Sen. Cassidy, you MUST DEFEAT FLAKE, COLLINS, MURKOWSKOI, teal....they are DISGUSTING!!!!!
Feinstein thinks Kavanaugh is a dangerous gang banging rapist but she allowed him to run free for 2 months before alerting anyone. Imagine all the women sexually assaulted and raped i that time.
All Facebook pages are backed up to the NSA database multiple times per day. Count on it.
Not that Trump or any Republicans would ever be able to access it though.
Cassidy is saying to make it (Dem collusion into Kav smear probe) part of today’s FIBbie approved investigation. That will only extend this bs investigation longer.
The scope of the FBI investigation must be very limited. Only accusations made by Ford should be investigated. With simple yes/no answers.
We must not allow this to turn into another open ended monstrosity like the Mueller investigation.
And we MUST insist the investigation, including a meeting where the findings, if any, are exposed is completed within a one week time period. That would be Monday, Oct 1, 2018 through Sunday, Oct 7, 2018, PERIOD. No extensions, no delays while we wait for info, etc.
Personally, I see no reason why Judge Kavanaugh cannot be voted on in the meantime. Then he could be sworn in Monday, October 8, 2018.
This is true. It is also true that “the MSM” part of that conspiracy exists as such because of a violation of the Sherman AntiTrust Act. The AP is a continuous virtual meeting of all major US journalism - inevitably producing, in Adam Smith’s phrase, “a conspiracy against the public.”It is a cynical conspiracy - journalists, knowing they are negative, claim to be objective - and that is the very definition of cynicism. Cynicism towards society, corresponding inevitably to naiveté towards government. "Who says, A, must say B.” Democrat (socialist) politics is always and everywhere characterized by that combined cynicism and naiveté.
The whole lot of them should be sued into oblivion.
Not necessarily it can/will branch off on a life of its own.
This FBI?
A bunch of Liberal Dims...gonna investigate Ford?
I've ZERO confidence that will happen..................
If nobody can use the NSA database, then why have it?
18 U.S.C. § 371—Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
https://www.justice.gov/jm/criminal-resource-manual-923-18-usc-371-conspiracy-defraud-us
The operative language is the so-called “defraud clause,” that prohibits conspiracies to defraud the United States. This clause creates a separate offense from the “offense clause” in Section 371. Both offenses require the traditional elements of Section 371 conspiracy, including an illegal agreement, criminal intent, and proof of an overt act.
Although this language is very broad, cases rely heavily on the definition of “defraud” provided by the Supreme Court in two early cases, Hass v. Henkel, 216 U.S. 462 (1910), and Hammerschmidt v. United States, 265 U.S. 182 (1924). In Hass the Court stated:
The statute is broad enough in its terms to include any conspiracy for the purpose of impairing, obstructing or defeating the lawful function of any department of government . . . (A)ny conspiracy which is calculated to obstruct or impair its efficiency and destroy the value of its operation and reports as fair, impartial and reasonably accurate, would be to defraud the United States by depriving it of its lawful right and duty of promulgating or diffusing the information so officially acquired in the way and at the time required by law or departmental regulation.
Hass, 216 U.S. at 479-480. In Hammerschmidt, Chief Justice Taft, defined “defraud” as follows:
To conspire to defraud the United States means primarily to cheat the Government out of property or money, but it also means to interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest. It is not necessary that the Government shall be subjected to property or pecuniary loss by the fraud, but only that its legitimate official action and purpose shall be defeated by misrepresentation, chicane or the overreaching of those charged with carrying out the governmental intention.
Hammerschmidt, 265 U.S. at 188.
The general purpose of this part of the statute is to protect governmental functions from frustration and distortion through deceptive practices. Section 371 reaches “any conspiracy for the purpose of impairing, obstructing or defeating the lawful function of any department of Government.” Tanner v. United States, 483 U.S. 107, 128 (1987); see Dennis v. United States, 384 U.S. 855 (1966). The “defraud part of section 371 criminalizes any willful impairment of a legitimate function of government, whether or not the improper acts or objective are criminal under another statute.” United States v. Tuohey, 867 F.2d 534, 537 (9th Cir. 1989).
The word “defraud” in Section 371 not only reaches financial or property loss through use of a scheme or artifice to defraud but also is designed and intended to protect the integrity of the United States and its agencies, programs and policies. United States v. Burgin, 621 F.2d 1352, 1356 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 1015 (1980); see United States v. Herron, 825 F.2d 50, 57-58 (5th Cir.); United States v. Winkle, 587 F.2d 705, 708 (5th Cir. 1979), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 827 (1979). Thus, proof that the United States has been defrauded under this statute does not require any showing of monetary or proprietary loss. United States v. Conover, 772 F.2d 765 (11th Cir. 1985), aff’d, sub. nom. Tanner v. United States, 483 U.S. 107 (1987); United States v. Del Toro, 513 F.2d 656 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 826 (1975); United States v. Jacobs, 475 F.2d 270 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 821 (1973).
Glad the Senator is speaking out, but this article was pretty weak. I think FReepers could put together a great beginning about how this thing unfolded, and exactly what they should investigate!
Brave attempt to give CHI-DIFI a stroke.
And then they'll demand weeks, and weeks, and weeks of additional hearings to follow-up interview every single witness the FBI interviewed. And Flake and the Weak Sisters will go right along with it, giving the Dems all the political cover they need to delay this process for infinity.
She stated under oath that Feinstein recommended Katz. That alone, should cause DIFI to be censored, if not worse.
Not necessarily it can/will branch off on a life of its own.
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Yeah...like the Mueller investigation?
I’m not for anything that takes on a life of its own....like that investigation has.
Dig their whole smear infrastructure out by the roots before 2020.
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