(09-26-2018 02:36 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote: (09-26-2018 02:31 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: (09-26-2018 02:26 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote: (09-26-2018 02:23 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: (09-26-2018 02:18 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote: what is a credible investigation for you? Done by the FBI?
If I've said it once I've said it 10 times now...an investigation by ANY CREDIBLE BODY at this point. The FBI is likely the best qualified, but I'd be fine with any party independent from either political party or the senate committee.
so you think that the FBI is going to find something much different from the 6 previous investigations that they have done in regards to his background? 
So, the FBI who did the background checks, FLAWLESS, but the one handling trump-Russia are all DEEP STATE HACKS? What a wonderful world you've created...lol
But bottom line, how the hell will I know if the FBI is going to find anything if you refuse to let them even investigate the allegations?
The background checks go all the way back to the age of 18 and nothing was found. How far you want them to go back?
They go back to the legal age. If he had had a criminal record as a minor they might have looked into that but probably wouldn't have made it public, however they probably would never have had to do that because a guy with a criminal record as a minor would never have been cleared as a candidate.
The sad thing in all of this is how both sides of the political aisle take everything to extreme in dealing with each other. We need a clear space to earnestly question, and appropriately bring up closeted issues, and more importantly to do it within the protocol of the procedures which are presently being trampled.
40 years ago there was still politics involved but never this shrill or intentionally malicious. Cavanaugh would have been questioned by the committee and if salacious details had emerged the issues would have come out during the process and then victims, had there been any, would have received a fairer hearing, but then so too would have the nominee. If the body of evidence had been against him then he likely would have withdrawn his nomination and the process would move on.
The reason the FBI doesn't investigate is that the Legislative body has not requested it formally. Until then they have no jurisdiction and no reason. The statute of limitations on filing a claim against what then would have been a minor over a he said she said would long have passed.
In reading responses on both sides of this political question I have to ask do any of you want an FBI that digs into your high school antics to decide your future after 3 or more decades of an adult track record? Do you want a government ruling over you that is so empowered? I don't. The risk of abuse of power is too great in those circumstances. The law should never be a tool of retribution or intimidation against citizens.
The victims here may be two. If Ford is telling the truth then she is a victim of Diane Fienstien who deliberately held back from introducing the accusations at the proper time so that she could play politics with it, thereby keeping Ford's accusations from receiving the attention of both parties in a setting where their efficacy would have been heard. And because of that Cavanaugh, if innocent, is a victim as well. Either way 1 is victimized by the same Fienstien political dirty trick.
Both are victimized here if Ford is telling the truth and if Cavanaugh was guilty, but in an episode that should have been handled in high school with both as minors, by their local police who would have been best suited to handle it, which is when and where it should have been dealt with. Ford is victimized in that case because it is when it could have been handled in a way that may have helped her life. And Cavanaugh if guilty then, might have improved his life by living it truthfully, instead of with buried bones to hide.
It's a pitiful commentary on just how degraded our political system has become. How are we going to find strong candidates to fill our appointed positions moving forward when this is the kind of damage and charade they will have to endure, and that indictment goes to both sides of the aisle.
This total break in House and Senate rules has to come to an end. And if I may say so this crap all started with televised proceedings where the presence of the camera created the extant audience for these publicity whores' pandering.
I'm old enough as some of you are to remember that wranglings in non public proceedings frequently produced healthier results for both parties.