Double Standards by Left on Kavanaugh Allegations

Checkerboard Strangler said:

They didn't impeach him for the blow job, but for lying about it.
But the original point still stands ...

And in the case of Kavanaugh, he will be rejected for lying about his little escapade.

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Xelor said:

If you were going to tell a high-stakes lie because you wanted to take somebody out, for whatever reason, would you beg the FBI to look into it?

Big Ed said:

Knowing the FBI would never investigate such a vague and unsubstantiated claim that is out of their jurisdiction - yep!

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1. FBI is the abbreviation for "Federal Bureau of Investigation," not for "Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation Only." Some investigations the FBI performs are for the purpose of determining whether to levy criminal or civil charges. Everyone is familiar with this type of investigation. Others are for the purpose of obtaining information with no prosecutorial end, but rather to determine one's fitness for a given role. Such investigations are what background checks are and they are most certainly within the FBI's scope of operations.
   • What Does an FBI Federal Background Check Consist Of?
   • Background Checks and Investigations Policy
   • The FBI performs background investigations in partnership with other organizations
     • There's no doubt that investigating specific crimes and suspected crimes is the "glamorous" part of what the FBI does; however, it's not at all the limit of what the FBI does. The Bureau provides a host of services besides that. The FBI and others avail themselves of those services.
   • Understanding Government Background Checks
   • The FBI Background Investigation Process
   • Form SF-86 -- If an applicant doesn't list a person whom they assaulted and there's no official public record of the matter, nobody's going to know to ask about it. What parties one attended as a teen, and who was there, isn't among the questions asked. That one doesn't list the person and that the victim didn't know one was being background checked, it's not as though the victim would have come forward at that time. Do you think Dr. Ford knew Brett had been appointed to any of the positions he's held? I don't. To wit, the girls I knew and who weren't classmates of mine and with whom I've long since lost touch are now women who are doing "whatever" that I know nothing of. As for Brett, how often do we hear of federal district and appellate court nominations?
   • The FBI's investigative Authority
   • Criminal Background Checks
2. There is at least one more federal background investigator, the NBIB. I don't know how that organization's ambit overlaps and doesn't the FBI's as go background investigations.
3. AFAIK, nobody is asking that Brett be criminally prosecuted. From what I can tell, Dr. Ford has merely stepped forward to share information about the nature of her interaction with Brett and that her involvement be taken into consideration in evaluating the nature of Brett's character and mindset regarding women and women's rights. Maybe Brett has, about women in the abstract, the same glibly disrespectful mindset he did when he was at Prep and Yale, and maybe he doesn't.
4. The point of my post to which you replied isn't that or whether the FBI conducts the investigation. It's that nobody, least of all a timorous person who demurred from reporting an assault upon their person and subsequently lived a comfortable life outside the national stage, would proffer a false claim and foist themselves into the fractured fray of a SCOTUS nomination.