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Democrats’ Complaints about the FBI Investigation Are Absurd
National Review ^ | October 3, 2018 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 10/03/2018 12:54:33 PM PDT by reaganaut1

It’s unnecessary to begin with, and is not a criminal probe.

The Delay, Delay, Delay strategy to stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court is taking the predictable course. Once they got Republicans to agree to the one-week delay, Democrats immediately started complaining that the time limit was arbitrary — that the FBI should have whatever time is necessary “to get the job done.”

Therein lies the issue, which Democrats have obfuscated from the start. “The job” is not the FBI’s job, it is the Senate’s; and the job is not to conduct a criminal investigation, it is to develop enough information that the Senate can responsibly exercise its constitutional advice-and-consent duty.

Thus understood, “the job” is already done. The Senate has more information about this nominee than it has had about any judicial nominee in history. It has vetted him before, approving his nomination to the prestigious D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. In the ensuing dozen years, Kavanaugh has issued hundreds of opinions, many of which are influential in the Supreme Court and the lower courts. He has, moreover, interacted with colleagues and litigants who give him high grades for collegiality and temperament. He has hired and mentored an impressive and diverse stable of law clerks, who think the world of him and are coveted for distinguished positions in the legal profession, including Supreme Court clerkships.

Furthermore, this nomination is the occasion for the seventh FBI background check of Kavanaugh’s career. The number is high because he has held positions of high responsibility, including national-security duties. Consequently, he has been carefully examined and found fit for access to the nation’s most closely held defense secrets.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; fbi; fbikavanaugh; kavanaugh

1 posted on 10/03/2018 12:54:33 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

The same ones that told us Comey and the FBI were above reproach? CHECK!


2 posted on 10/03/2018 12:58:04 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: reaganaut1

Ideally, this would mean reviewing the six previous investigations. If there are any inconsistencies, then they could investigate further.


3 posted on 10/03/2018 12:58:09 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: reaganaut1

Democrats’ Complaints about __(Fill in the Blank)__ Are Absurd.................


4 posted on 10/03/2018 12:58:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: reaganaut1

“Democrats’ Complaints about the FBI Investigation Are Absurd”


Wrong. Democrats are absurd.


5 posted on 10/03/2018 12:58:57 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: reaganaut1

They aren’t doing it because it makes any sense, they are doing it to waste time.


6 posted on 10/03/2018 1:14:09 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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7 posted on 10/03/2018 1:17:51 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: reaganaut1

Eff the Democrats, they don’t matter. Republicans Senators are all that matters right now.


8 posted on 10/03/2018 1:25:23 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Stop The Madness. Do Not Respond To Vanity Posts.)
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To: SERKIT

Speaking of Obama..he appointed a Communist as a young adult to head the friggin CIA no less


9 posted on 10/03/2018 1:35:12 PM PDT by RonnG ( v)
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To: reaganaut1

I really hope the Republicans put this report out for everyone to see. If they don’t the CommieCrats will leak it as the way they WANT it to be. Crooked bastards


10 posted on 10/03/2018 1:41:58 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: CMailBag

Has the FBI report been delivered or not?


11 posted on 10/03/2018 1:48:15 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: reaganaut1

Where is the list of the Senators who even interviewed Kavanaugh in the first place??? Between the nomination & the actual hearings???

There were plenty of stories about Dems refusing to even speak to the man


12 posted on 10/03/2018 2:40:55 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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Democrats whine about everything they aren’t controlling. Why do you think they defend voter fraud?


13 posted on 10/03/2018 2:47:03 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: reaganaut1

You have not heard democratic complaints yet. Just wait until the FBI concludes their investigation, then watch.


14 posted on 10/03/2018 2:49:23 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent (.)
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To: reaganaut1

They know the report might not look good for them. So, they’re trying to discredit the report before it’s released.


15 posted on 10/03/2018 4:55:36 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: reaganaut1

“Demcrats’ Complaints Are Absurd”

Nope.

Nothing is absurd when done by revolutionary Democrat adolescents to further the revolution.

(Democrats’ new rallying cry is “Zeil Heil!!!)

IMHO


16 posted on 10/04/2018 9:38:01 AM PDT by ripley
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