A Quote by Saxby Chambliss

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

Saxby Chambliss

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Saxby Chambliss
American - Politician
Born: November 10, 1943

We should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions.

Brett Kavanaugh

In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

P.D. Ouspensky

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

Louis Freeh

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Barber Conable

Derogatory information sometimes is disclosed in the course of criminal investigations and prosecutions, but we never release it gratuitously.

Rod Rosenstein

Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.

Mitch Landrieu

Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people.

Brett Kavanaugh

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

Christine Pelosi

As a former F.B.I. special agent who conducted counterintelligence investigations, I can attest that foreign intelligence services do not operate on the basis of explicit agreements or even actions that, standing alone, constitute criminal activity.

Asha Rangappa

The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.

Benjamin Wittes

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before.

Jill Abramson

No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.