> “Sen. Bill Cassidy: FBI Probe Must Investigate Dems’ Collusion to Smear Kavanaugh”
Uh... uh... yah! Duh!
But only after Judge K is confirmed this next week.
God bless Sen Kennedy....but...this will NEVER happen.
You mean like they investigated Clinton for operating an illegal e-mail server?
Please...
How about a no knock raid on the lawyers office. Pull all the emails
This certainly what they should do. But I don’t see how they can do it all in a week.
Dems NEVER finish counting the votes...
Just for starters.
What the Senate democrats and media are doing to judge Kavanaugh is not collusion, it’s a RICO conspiracy.
We are at the point of cleaning house.
5.56mm
Ford is going to need that $500,000 gofundme
The unproven furtive gropings of post adolescent teenagers,
under the influence of alcohol some 35 years ago is not
cause to destroy a man’s reputation. This character assassination by accusation is a troubling precedent
that speaks volumes about where the liberal left wants
to take this country. Rule of Law? They don’t need it.
It gets in the way of the narrative.
It would be a surprise if the FBI was not investigating Ford already
btttt
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.
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.
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).
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.