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brooklynite

(94,624 posts) Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:13 PM Sep 2018

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I'm not a fan of hyperbole...even by Democrats

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If Kavanaugh lied to the Senate, he committed a Felony and Leahy should report him to the authorities.

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I'm not a fan of hyperbole...even by Democrats (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2018 OP

A question, if you will? atreides1 Sep 2018 #1

Isn't that what just happened? NCTraveler Sep 2018 #2

Public tweets don't constitute a criminal referral. brooklynite Sep 2018 #3

Maybe you aren't familiar with the content of the tweet. NCTraveler Sep 2018 #4

Leahy DID report him... hlthe2b Sep 2018 #5

I totally support you right to post your OP, even though I do not agree with it, but you Atticus Sep 2018 #6

atreides1

(16,082 posts)

1. A question, if you will?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:16 PM

Sep 2018

Which "authorities" are you referring to?

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)

2. Isn't that what just happened?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:18 PM

Sep 2018

Pretty sure the Republicans "authorities" have been made aware.

brooklynite

(94,624 posts)

3. Public tweets don't constitute a criminal referral.

Reply to NCTraveler (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:20 PM

Sep 2018

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)

4. Maybe you aren't familiar with the content of the tweet.

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:22 PM

Sep 2018

The tweet is secondary. There was an initial action.

I simply can't find an issue here.

hlthe2b

(102,304 posts)

5. Leahy DID report him...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:39 PM

Sep 2018

In 2006, when Kavanaugh was up for confirmation for his current job as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, he denied under oath having any involvement in formulating the controversial terrorism detainee policy while working in the Bush White House.

A media report later cast some doubt on that denial, leading two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to accuse Kavanaugh of having "misled me, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the nation," as Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrote in a 2007 letter to Kavanaugh.

The Department of Justice reviewed the matter and said there was not enough evidence to investigate Kavanaugh for giving false statements to Congress, which is a crime.

WHO made that call at DOJ? The current (newly appointed) head of DOJ's criminal division Brian A. Benczkowski. If you think he is "clean" google his ties to Alfa Bank.

Atticus

(15,124 posts)

6. I totally support you right to post your OP, even though I do not agree with it, but you

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2018, 03:40 PM

Sep 2018

must be aware that some could construe it as----uh---- "being critical of" a fellow Democrat.

Just sayin'----

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