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Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh
by
Spendulus
on 21/09/2018, 22:37:33 UTC

That's not how the criminal justice system works. You file a criminal report (ideally not 30 years late), and you provide the appropriate law enforcement agency with as much information and evidence as you can provide. The standard protocol for filing a criminal report is making an official statement. If there is no report, no statement, no evidence, there is no investigation.

Except that this isn't a criminal proceeding.  You do know the FBI does background investigations on someone being nominated to the highest court in the land right?  You do know that many times the FBI has re-opened background investigations based on new allegations right?  Specifically the FBI re-opened the background investigation into Clarence Thomas when Anita Hill came forward with her allegations, which again in an ironic twist had senate republicans demanding an FBI investigation into the new claims (some of those senators still sit on the committee today).  That investigation lasted 2 days.

You don't get to demand the FBI go dig through some ones life just based on statements alone. That is their discretion,

Really, digging through someone's life based on statements is literally a major part of a background investigation, they need to be corroborated or exculpated that's literally what an investigation is. Before nominating a person for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land this always happens and Kavanaugh has had them before.....

This is very confused. (of course purposefully as you note).

Either it is a criminal complaint or it is not. If it is it goes to the state level not the FBI. They have NO INVOLVEMENT in state crimes.

Either you have a 30+ year old crime in a state with no statute of limitations or you don't. If you don't have a complaint that can be taken to the DA you don't have a crime. Period.

Except that's not what this is about and you know it. It's about stalling or stopping the Kavanaugh nomination. This requires creating doubt. That in turn does not require truth, only allegations. That's what we have here, unsubstantiated allegations for a reason completely other than justice for a past wrong.

So...

Is it right to be in with the witch hunt?