So p.o.s.CongressCritter CHAFFETZsays he's sending aReferral to FBI for lying to Congress under oath
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What are the requirements for a Referral:
* Can *one* p.o.s. CongressCritter do it on his own?
* Done by the Committee where the testimony was given? Majority vote? Unanimous Committee?
* By a vote of the whole House?
It would seem that if a Referral is so easy, NOBODY would ever testify about ANYTHING. Oh, then it would be Contempt of Congress!1
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-email-perjury-republicans-225250#ixzz4DljA4vgw
[font size=5]Clinton unlikely to face perjury charges in email scandal[/font]
By Sarah Wheaton
.... “It will be a shark with no teeth,” said Rusty Hardin, the lawyer who successfully defended the pitcher Roger Clemens when he was charged with lying to Congress about doping in 2010. “Perjury is a very, very difficult crime to prosecute.” ....
“They get referrals all the time,” said Hardin, reached as he watched the Comey testimony on television from his vacation in Florida. “Every time a congressman gets bent out of shape about something, they try to refer it.”
The House Oversight Committee has also sought investigations, for example, into Lois Lerner over her testimony about the IRS’s alleged targeting of conservative nonprofits. ....
The Clemens referral went to the Justice Department in February 2008, Hardin recalled, and the indictment didn’t come until August of 2010. ....
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