How much faith do you have the FBI report will be legitimate?

[RiverStone]

We are getting duplicitous bullshit from Kelly Ann and Sara regarding if the White House is limiting the witness list (yes) and scope of the FBI investigation (yes).

This week has only opened up new battle lines, and seems to be an orchestrated show to NOT get to the truth, but delay and impede it.

I hope the public exercises extreme heat to demand the FBI investigation has not already been compromised!!

[StarryNite]

1. None

[CharleyDog]

2. I have no faith. NONE. Vote! is all I can say. nt

[dhol82]

3. Zip.

[Generic Brad]

4. Zero

I have faith in the FBI to execute exactly as instructed. The problem is with the instructions and constraints placed on them. Republicans only agreed to this because the investigation parameters were set up to ignore facts and ensure Kavenaugh's nomination can move to a floor vote.

[RiverStone]

9. Then what, if anything, will be the check to this choreographed fictional "report"?

On temperament alone, Kavanaugh is wholly not qualified for the SCOTUS. Add conspiracy paranoia etc.

Jeff Flake is simply feeding a false narrative to protect tRump from ever being held accountable as a criminal!

[RockRaven]

5. Zero, and people need to be voicing this BEFORE the results are known.

People in Maine, Alaska, West Virginia, Arizona, and EVERYWHERE really, need to make it clear that we know this is a sham, and won't accept it as the fig leaf Flake et al were looking for.

[CrispyQ]

6. I couldn't say.

I'm sure there's a contingent of trumpers in the bureau, but for the most part I think the FBI hates Trump.

[peggysue2]

22. Yes! And I think there's a deliberate . . .

attempt to muddy the water from the WH messaging: the investigation will be limited, the investigation will be open, Republicans will call for an investigation of Democrats, DiFi specifically, yada, yada.

It's laughable that the Trumpster is now beating the drum for the FBI when he's spent nearly 2 years attempting to destroy the Bureau and the DOJ.

Sow confusion is the main strategy and hope the FBI finds nothing so they can push their boy through.

God knows what's going on behind the scenes, things we're simply not privy to. So, I have no idea what sort of investigation this will be. But I remain cautiously optimistic because that's my nature and because that's all we have at the moment.

[2naSalit]

7. I can only hope for

any pertinent info to find its way into the special counsel's hands and gets dealt with from there.

[Hoyt]

8. We asked for FBI investigation, now we are going to question it?

[RiverStone]

13. We asked for a (((legitimate))) FBI investigation, not one controlled by the White House Council

Huge difference!

[Hoyt]

15. What is illegitimate at this point? Evidence please.

I get the skepticism, but why have several senators ask for an investigation during hearing, get one when it looked like full Senate vote would occur tomorrow, then start grousing?

[RiverStone]

17. Link below (one of many examples)

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/kavanaugh-investigation-limited-by-white-house-report.html

[Hoyt]

21. There seems to conflicts in link, but if FBI can't find condemning information

regarding Ford or Rameriz, we are in trouble.

[ooky]

18. If the investigation is a Republican sham then it is like no investigation.

If that's the case I expect the same Senators who requested it to reject it when it comes back without investigating the specific things they wanted investigated.

[Brother Buzz]

10. The FBI report will be 100% legitimate

However, interpreting and spinning the report is where the fun and games begin. Bank on it.

[Hoyt]

16. No joke. The spinning will be unprecedented.

There will even be Senators, on both sides, who will say they don’t care what investigation shows, they are voting for or against Kad.

[Brother Buzz]

23. It's going to be interesting to see how much of the report gets leaked, and how fast

Redactions, Baby, dig out the Sharpie®.

[davekriss]

11. Zero

[VOX]

12. Not much. They only have time to skim the surface a bit, and that's all.

They lack the time and the go-ahead to investigate deeper.

[matt819]

14. Zero

As long as there is interference from the WH or the AG, there’s no way to trust it.

[llmart]

19. Zero.

[Raven]

20. 100% absolutely. n/t

[Polly Hennessey]

24. None.

[SubjectTrip]

25. It depends.

If the FBI straight up says "the limitations placed upon us prevented us from doing a proper investigation" it could carry some weight.

[liberalmuse]

26. We need to protest and call.

I called a list of alleged undecideds the other night, including Flake. Even a short voicemail is better than wringing our hands waiting for someone in authority to do the right thing. It's easy to feel powerless by yourself, but there are millions of us who are against Kavanaugh, Trump and the GOP agenda and we can make a difference. Hell, if everyone of us just called one undecided Senator, that would be huge! There's only a few who have full voicemail boxes, so I let them know via Twitter.

[violetpastille]

27. Rule #3

Rule #3: Institutions will not save you. It took Putin a year to take over the Russian media and four years to dismantle its electoral system; the judiciary collapsed unnoticed. The capture of institutions in Turkey has been carried out even faster, by a man once celebrated as the democrat to lead Turkey into the EU. Poland has in less than a year undone half of a quarter century’s accomplishments in building a constitutional democracy.

-How to Survive an Autocracy
Masha Gessen November 10, 2016

[Turbineguy]

28. It would depend on what people inside the FBI want.

Politicians come and go (even though some stay too long).

[dameatball]

29. I have no idea, but it's a damn sight better than ICE conducting the investigation.