The FBI can't tie its shoes in under a week

[Azathoth]

Just the administrative process of opening/reopening an investigation, assigning personnel, and figuring out a game plan takes several days. When agents have to travel, schedule interviews, take statements, etc., you're already measuring in weeks rather than days. And that's assuming Trump orders them to reopen the background check this afternoon.

Flake better be prepared to walk back his one-week deadline, or else this is a farce.

[pbmus]

1. Mark Judge....

[nolabear]

5. Mark. Effing. Judge.

[spanone]

2. anita hill investigation took 3 days.

[Azathoth]

7. That was so long ago I don't remember the details, but 3 days is a very simple investigation

This is a 30-year-old sexual assault allegation with witnesses who made need to be tracked down and/or have retained counsel.

On edit: Looking back, the FBI had already interviewed Hill and others before the hearings began. It was that leaked FBI report that made her claims public.

So the FBI had already done most of the "investigating" when they were sent back to investigate.

[Blue_true]

9. Dr. Ford gave some names and a description of the upstairs where she was assaulted.

Question the men named under oath and visit the house where the assault took place. If the house was renovated, drawings of the way it was before the renovations should exist. All that can be done in a couple of days.

[Azathoth]

12. What if they don't want to talk? What if they have counsel (looking at you, Mark Judge)?

I love how all of a sudden, in the blink of an eye, everyone here considers it just a known fact that the FBI can conduct a credible investigation of a thirty-year-old crime in under a week.

[Blue_true]

19. Supena their asses. Use suspected involved with a felony as cause.

Maryland, where the assault occurred does not have a time limitation on such crimes.

[john657]

20. At the time of the alleged sexual assault,

it was a misdemeanor with a one year statute of limitations, there's a thread here that explains it, so Kavanaugh can't be prosecuted for it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211206586

[Azathoth]

21. Sounds great. Takes time.

[Ccarmona]

3. It Only Took Three Days for the FBI to Investigate Anita Hill n/t

[WeekiWater]

4. The FBI moves very fast.

They have people under rocks right next to you.

Seriously, when they are tasked to move fast they do it.

[RKP5637]

6. K&R!!! n/t

[Azathoth]

8. You mean like the freakin Hillary server investigation?

Seriously, I love how people can instantly forget history when it is convenient for them.

The FBI is known for a lot of things, but speed is not one of them.

[WeekiWater]

10. They are very much known for their speed.

Please learn about the server investigation and the politicization of it. That would be like saying the Kav investigation has now gone on for years. His first background check was a long time ago. That is not how one should look at these investigations.

They are one of the most powerful and fastest moving government agencies.

Anecdotes should not make ones worldview.

[Azathoth]

14. Jesus Christ, anything else fawning you want to say about the FBI?

"They are one of the most powerful and fastest moving government agencies."

Fast compared to what? The Department of Agriculture? This stuff is so comically divorced from reality it doesn't merit response.

[WeekiWater]

15. I don't see myself to be fawning over the FBI.

Sorry that is your takeaway.

Yes, they are much faster responding than the Department of Agriculture.

It's simply a fact that they are one of the most powerful and fastest responding government agencies.

[Blue_true]

11. They had to rebuild several servers during the Hillary investigation.

Plus parse through hundreds of thousands or millions of emails, some of which had been deleted (as is normal for old stuff that no longer has any relevance).

You are comparing grapes to watermelons, some similarities, but vast differences.

[bettyellen]

13. Bullshit. They have loads of local resources and can do it.

[Azathoth]

16. Do you people even hear yourselves?

You're preemptively defending an artificially abbreviated investigation. You're doing the Republicans' work for them.

[oasis]

17. IMO, Kavanaugh will withdraw by on Monday after consulting w/family.

FBI won't get involved.

[Azathoth]

18. Will be interesting to see

Even an abbreviated investigation calls his bluff.