Kavanaugh Hearing

Any update on whether or not Dr. Ford has offered up her therapist's notes?

 

Based on your posts about sexual assault victims, what do you think should happen to a Senator who receives such an allegation and sits on it, thus obstructing justice for the accuser?

 

NEWSFLASH: we live in an imperfect world and our system of justice is imperfect.

 

She never went to them so how could they have told her?

 

From Ford’s opening statement:

The letter included my name, but also a request that it be kept confidential. My hope was that providing the information confidentially would be sufficient to allow the Senate to consider Mr Kavanaugh’s serious misconduct without having to make myself, my family or anyone’s family vulnerable to the personal attacks and invasions of privacy that we have faced since my name became public.

In a letter dated August 31st, Senator Feinstein wrote that she would not share the letter without my explicit consent, and I appreciated this commitment. Sexual assault victims should be able to decide for themselves when and whether their private experience is made public.

 

Democrats of Maryland's Montgomery County went to the police and ask that a police report be filed based on Dr. Ford's testimony. The MC Police stated that the statute of limitation at the time was one year and they have to go by the statute of limitations at the time of the crime.

 

This is a really outstanding article from a person who has interacted with Kavanaugh for years:
I Know Brett Kavanaugh, But I Wouldn’t Confirm Him - The Atlantic

It sums up where my head is at right now.

 

Julie Swetnick has now been walking back some of her claims in a sworn affidavit. One senator is wanting to send a referral to the FBI which he should


Julie Swetnick, who has made uncorroborated and lurid sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, is facing credibility questions as she appears to partially walk back some of her more salacious claims about the embattled nominee and details about her past emerge.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy even suggested the FBI scrutinize her in response, tweeting:

"A criminal referral should be sent to the FBI/DOJ regarding the apparently false affidavit signed by Julie Swetnick that was submitted to the Senate by @MichaelAvenatti."

Kavanaugh accuser Swetnick faces credibility questions amid changing story, details from past

 

Did she add... "then it was mysteriously leaked at the most inopportune time possible for Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation vote. I have no idea how that could have happened, because Senator Feinstein assured me my secret was safe to her." lol

 

You're right. You don't have to provide anything. However, the quote you gave us doesn't say what you claimed it does. It's vague. On the other hand, his other two statements are very specific. Simply put, your interpretation just isn't convincing. It asks us to make too many assumptions in order to take it from a lie to a half-truth.

 

The Committee has a way to address issues confidentially - the FBI background investigation process is, itself, confidential, and the Committee can meet in closed session to maintain confidentiality.

Unless her hope was literally that Feinstein would receive her letter and not do anything with it, the "well she wanted to be confidential" excuse for sitting on it doesn't get particularly far.

 

That is his opinion and he is entitled to it but opinions are like butt holes everyone has one

 

Then what’s your claim exactly? Feinstein simultaneously withheld evidence and released it without permission?

 

And how do we know what Feinstein did or didn’t do with the letter confidentially?

 

Posted above, in part, by GatorRade:

“In a letter dated August 31st, Senator Feinstein wrote that she would not share the letter without my explicit consent, and I appreciated this commitment. Sexual assault victims should be able to decide for themselves when and whether their private experience is made public.“

These are all lawyers and they’re adept at parsing words. SHE would not share; however, one of her staff might...or, she might have left it on top of her desk when a reporter was visiting...or,..... But, SHE would never share the letter without ...explicit consent. Got it. That’s why it stayed a secret for....wow, 30 days.

 

Because according to Feinstein herself she didn't forward it to the FBI until September 12th, the original Intercept story that prompted this whole hubbub on the 12th noted that her office was refusing to share it with even other Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, and she didn't share the original letter with GOP Senators on the Judiciary Committee until September 20th.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/im...in to Grassley - July 30 Letter from Ford.pdf

 

Some opinions are much better than others.

 

It appears the White House is still handicapping the investigation:

 

And yet safer by magnitudes than sitting in a steel box on wheels racing around at 70mph and hoping the idiot next to you is paying attention to what they are doing rather than checking how many likes their latest post got.