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Are we not setting a deleterious precedent if she is not prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, given the magnitude of the circumstances!
I am almost certain that is why the FBI didn't interview Dr. Ford after she had provided sworn testimony (whether or not anyone would think that was the wrong thing to do). After Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh provided sworn testimony in front of Congress, actually interviewing them would result in something. Since they cannot both be telling the truth, one
or both of them (not to mention any number of collaborating witnesses) would be going to jail.
Where that comes into "play" is that someone (including Dr. Ford) could be going to jail for a lie they told during sworn testimony that really had nothing to do with the crime of sexual assault Dr. Ford alleged. In other words, no crime of sexual assault, that started the whole mess, may have been able to be proven with unbiased verifiable evidence as ever occurring. At the same time,
any number of people could end up being sent to jail for
lying about something (anything)
, either in their statements or testimony, that still doesn't prove whether or not the crime alleged ever occurred.
In other words, if the FBI had chosen to investigate anything other than what is directly supported in unbiased verifiable collaborating evidence that the alleged sexual assault occurred, and if they interviewed Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh (or any of the people who had already provided sworn statements) ... A whole stinking lot of people could have been going to jail over what is essentially an allegation of a sexual assault that may never have been proven to have occurred.
I am not excusing liars, I am saying that if the FBI wants to start opening investigations as to who is lying in Washington DC, there aren't enough jail cells to house the guilty.