Looks like Judge K will be confirmed and the Dems just got slapped down
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-09-25%20Graslsey%20to%20Feinstein%20-%20Ford-Kavanaugh%20Hearing.pdf
I am starting to see vertebrate-like behavior from these carbon-based life forms in the GOP.
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Totally OT but not to be missed: Pompeo gives a speech re: Iran at the UN and is heckled. Tells ’em “Go protest in Iran”
https://www.rt.com/usa/439421-pompeo-iran-protest-sanctions/
I hadn’t paid any attention to this. Among the people in Christine Ford’s life going public with their support for her, the only family members are on her husband’s side.
4) Her own immediate family doesn’t appear to be backing her up, either. Her mother, father and two siblings are all conspicuously absent from a letter of support released by a dozen relatives, mostly on her husband’s side of the family.
The letter attests to her honesty and integrity. “Why didn’t her parents and brothers sign the letter?” a congressional source familiar with the investigation wondered.
https://nypost.com/2018/09/25/eight-big-problems-for-christine-blasey-fords-story/
bed time. nite.
Whip me, beat me, call me Irma.
And here I thought that the GOP was all like
https://youtu.be/AEPvSo8bE2I
@ AZfederalist:
Midterm elections are imminent, and GOP spines are ephemeral.
I haven’t been paying much attention to this Ford circus, but if I understand it the vote happens on Friday? How convenient. Mr. K for the win.
The dems had their demagoguery and Ford her 15 minutes o’ fame and the man is still standing, so now they have to put up or shut up. Looking forward when Ginsburg departs and PDT gets to pick another SCJ. The fits of impotent rage will be epic.
Bunk X wrote:
Transient vertebrates, how interesting.
as paul harvey used to say
“the rest of the story”
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/09/26/awesome-final-chapter-of-ted-cruz-wife-chased-from-restaurant-story-proves-lefty-harassment-was-a-big-time-fail/
https://amgreatness.com/2018/09/25/trumps-triumph-at-the-u-n/
the president began his speech noting that, “In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”
The bureaucrats shifting upon their glutei maximi upon the plush receptacles provided by the custodians of the United Nations may have found the president’s frank statement risible. But their hilarity detracts not one iota from the truth of his observation.
Ford is submitting ‘corroborating stmts’ from 4 people who claimed she told them about the ‘assault’
“In another declaration, Keith Koegler said Ford revealed the alleged assault to him in 2016, when the two parents were watching their children play in a public place and discussing the “light” sentencing of Stanford University student Brock Turner.”
On that day, Koegler said Ford revealed to him in an email that the person who had assaulted her in high school was President Donald Trump’s “favorite for SCOTUS.”
Kavanaugh wasn’t added to Trump’s SCOTUS list until Nov 2017
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/09/26/thats-it-heres-a-breakdown-of-the-4-new-sworn-declarations-submitted-by-dr-christine-blasey-ford/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
@ rain of lead:
We were supposed to listen to the nevertrumpers? Mmmhmmm.
eagles – as I suspected, the overnighters in the media got to the databases but here’s a profile on her, from the New York Times, no less:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/rachel-mitchell-bio-facts.html
She’s a CAREER prosecutor, which is pretty amazing; a lot of attorneys work in the DA’s office to get experience to hang out their shingle as a criminal defense attorney later. To stick with it for almost 30 years at a lower rate of pay than the private sector tends to indicate a commitment to seeing justice done in my book.
Judging from her bar admission date and employment history from the Arizona State Bar website, she went right from her admission into the Maricopa County DA’s office. She seems to be very highly regarded for her work there and has even been recommended for a judicial appointment.
Of course, they can’t help but SNEER that Maricopa is the same county as Joe Arpaio. I would point out to these snots that Arpaio, for all his faults, was committed to punishing criminals, not giving them chunky peanut butter and weight rooms. A dickhead on Twitter said “she’s with with Joe Arpaio office in Arizona” which is pathetically stupid, but it’s what I’ve come to expect.
At this point, I can’t answer these people anymore. The sounds coming out of my grand-daughter’s mouth make more sense.
Oh and by the way, Kavanaugh DID produce his calendars. I’ve examined a lot of evidence in my time. These look like the real deal.
And the accuser has produced …. well nothing. Not even herself at this point.
The Barbarian wrote:
Thank you for the info. That BS about working w/Arpaio is being spread by the flower of female intellect, Jennifer Rubin.
I was clearing up the morning papers Hubby had been reading and there was a headline on pg A1 below the fold I thought was odd. Something about tariffs hitting home buyers. ??? Turned it over and it’s not a paper we subscribe to.
“CHINA WATCH – supplement prepared by China Daily, People’s Republic of China, did not involve the news or editorial departments of the Washington Post”
Yep. WaPo is distributing Chinese propaganda free of charge. The headline above the fold is
BELT AND ROAD ALIGNS WITH AFRICAN NATIONS
I’ll have to find time to read it and fill yinz in.
The Barbarian wrote:
where? can we see? please please please???
@ eaglesoars:
Jake Tapper has it on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1044920829514010624
Of course, Libs want to know why he was grounded. And what the doctor’s appointments are about. Oh for EFF’s sake. I got grounded if I didn’t do my chores or got home late or sassed my mother. Parents were PARENTS in those days.
@ The Barbarian:
this looks like a combo calendar, personal assistant, etc. His version of what we use apps on our smartphones for now
@ eaglesoars:
Exactly. Sounds like the type of well-ordered, thoughtful and organized individual I would want to see on the Supreme Court.
Oh, and they’ve already found a BIG lie in those four “sworn statements” to the Judiciary Committee — One guy says “I remember you said in emails in 2016 that Kavanaugh was Trump’s first choice for the Supreme Court” (paraphrasing).
Except Trump NEVER mentioned Kavanaugh until 2017.
Barbarian, you’ll enjoy this, it’s written by and employment lawyer (whatever that is)
10 Red Flags About Sexual Assault Claims, From An Employment Lawyer
3. The accuser attacks the process instead of participating.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/09/25/10-red-flags-sexual-assault-claims-employment-lawyer/
good read
The Barbarian wrote:
November 2017, to be precise
see my #11
gotta hop, later
By the way, has anyone noticed that on Monday, Judge Kavanaugh made the statement that he was a virgin in high school and for many years after. That’s a pretty “ballsy” (no pun intended) statement to make. All you need is just ONE person to come forward and say they had sex with him in high school. Or even college for that matter.
And no one has.
https://thegatewaypundit.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1f9b29171f5fb45edb2520ae&id=1a75dcf7d9&e=d43a186674
@ Gateway Pundit
Louud mouth camera whore porn lawyer gets punked.
@ eaglesoars:
And surprise – Ford fits all 10.
Avenatti has identified his client – Julie Swetnik. From the photo he published, she seems a little young to have gone to school with Kavanaugh and Ford.
@ RIX:
@ The Barbarian:
He’s baaaaaaacckkk!!
Here is a picture of my client Julie Swetnick. She is courageous, brave and honest. We ask that her privacy and that of her family be respected.
———
I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room,” Washington resident Julie Swetnick said in a sworn affidavit released by attorney Michael Avenatti. “These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh,” she added. Judge was a high school classmate of Kavanaugh.
———–
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-26/avenatti-details-alleged-kavanaugh-gang-rape-scheme-involving-spiked-punch
@ The Barbarian:
this is my favorite part: We ask that her privacy and that of her family be respected.
I really have work to do……….
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) will announce that he’s seeking an injunction in federal court designed to stop a final vote on Brett Kavanaugh, asserting an obstruction of his constitutional duty to advise and consent on nominees
You should have to pass a test on how the gov’t works before you’re allowed to run for office.
The judicial branch cannot tell the leg branch whether or not it can vote on something
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1044971068056842240
@ eaglesoars:
Dear God. Malarkey is almost as stupid as Harris and Hinono.
Here is her sworn statement. I can already think of a few things but I’m under the gun, you guys have at it
https://www.axios.com/third-woman-sexual-assault-allegations-kavanauagh-1bc3e662-2217-4fd8-8025-7dc946704913.html?stream=top-stories&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_all
She is apparently a few years older, she would have been 20 or so and she’s a graduate of a public high school in Gaithersburg MD. But she would not have been in high school when she attended the parties because she would have already graduated.
How did she meet this crowd? There’s a ‘mutual acquaintance’ somewhere.
After multiple parties where she witnessed this ‘spiked drink/rape train’ behavior (she kept attending them), (1) even tho she says she avoided ‘the punch’ (2) and observing it was the ‘shy’ girls who were targeted – she says she was drugged and raped at one of the parties. But she doesn’t name the rapist(s).
She says she also attended such a party during ‘beach week’ at Ocean City. There was a ‘beach week’ on Kavanaugh’s calendar and I think it says ‘Timmy’s party’. Find out if that was in Ocean City and who the hell is Timmy.
have at it, I’ve got deadlines
I have yet to see ONE member of the Senate or House that is going on the record as wanting to hear from the gang-rape looney tune.
Hmmm, so today is officially the 9th anniversary of my Blog “The Wilderness of Mirrors”.
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/today-officially-9-years-of-blogging-773-articles/
So, Judiciary Committee Democrats and Schmucky Schumer are demanding Kavanaugh withdraw. Why? You have a hearing scheduled for tomorrow. Don’t you want to hear from everyone?
Now it’s clear. As we suspected all along. The plan was to up the ante on the allegations until Kavanaugh caved rather than put his family through this. Except he didn’t. And now Ford is expected to show up tomorrow and testify. This is desperation on their part. No doubt they PROMISED her it would never come to her being put under oath under penalty of perjury. She could care less about facing Kavanaugh in a room, or what media is present, or who does the questioning. It was all about not being put under oath.
Hence the so-called declarations that she submitted. Except they corroborate nothing other than the fact that she started talking about the incident after 2012. They have refused to turn over the therapist’s notes or the polygraph results to Kavanaugh’s attorney. And there are serious factual problems with these affidavits vis-a-vis what was told by Ford to them.
The only people who can corroborate her story have refused to do so.
Uh oh….looks like Avenutti may have exposed his client to legal jeopardy.
It turns out July Swetnick graduated in 1980 – this would have made her a college sophomore when she attended the “gang rape” parties. With high schoolers. Let that sink in. And according to her, she attended something like 10 of them. AND. DID. NOTHING. TO. STOP. IT.
She was over 18. She was a legal adult. As such, she can be charged with several offenses, not the least of which would be her facilitating the rape of a minor, not to mention contributing to the delinquency. And last time I checked, Maryland had removed the Statute of Limitations on crimes of sexual assault.
Oh, and Avenutti will not let her be interviewed by the New York Times. I also note with interest that her “declaration” was executed YESTERDAY. Not over the weekend or Monday. Yesterday. And unless it is submitted to a body with judicial authority, it carries no perjury jeopardy. Did he submit to the Senate Judiciary Committee? Not as far as I know. She executed this affidavit AFTER Kavanaugh’s calendars were released.
Supposedly she has government clearances. So she KNEW that when Kavanaugh was nominated, there would be a vetting process and background examination by the FBI. Why, if she possessed this information, did she not voluntarily advise the FBI regarding this knowledge and allow them to then conduct an investigation, and which would have had the benefit of getting these so-called “facts” out there but would not have required that her name be made public in the process.
So far today, not a single individual to my knowledge has stepped forward to verify her story.
Julie Swetnick was interviewed in 2007 at Joe Theisman’s sports bar here in Alexandria (it was in Old Towne)
https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/1045038098747252736
..”invited to so many Super Bowl parties this year she just doesn’t know what to do…”
“I have a firm recollection of seeing boys lined up outside rooms at many of these parties waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room. These boys included Mark Judge and Brett Kavanaugh,” Swetnick’s statement claims.
yeah, mmmhmmm…they were prolly lined up to take a piss. nice big houses have many bathrooms
anyway, she is so full of shit that…well…fill in the blanks
IRS tax lien AND a defamation suit (looks like that one was filed in Oregon), plaintiff was a company called ‘Webtrends’
https://twitter.com/thedonaldreddit/status/1045015942340771841
@ coldwarrior:
Grassley now saying he’ll think about accommodating Swetnick. Actually I don’t have a problem with this. Yes, Kavanaugh will miss the first couple weeks of oral argument but Thomas wasn’t seated until October 15th and there wasn’t a lot of problems.
Let’s see what Avenutti does if Grassley says “bring her in.”
However, first let’s see if Ford shows up. I’m still saying even money.
Brett Kavanaugh’s third accuser Julie Swetnick was sued in 2001 for domestic violence against the man Richard Vinneccy in Miami-Dade County, according to court records.
A background search of Swetnick reveals two liens, including a 2014 federal tax lien of $40,303. She also has a Comptroller of Maryland Annapolis lean for $62,821.03.
Swetnick has sued the state of Maryland on repeated occasions.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-julie-swetnick-was-sued-for-domestic-violence/
Miss Lindsay has grown a pair since his best bud shed his earthly coil
I very much believe in allowing people to be heard.
But I am not going to be played, and I’m not going to have my intelligence insulted by the Michael Avenattis of the world.
I will not be a participant in wholesale character assassination that defies credibility.
A HS class mate of Swetnick was just on the phone w/Larry O’Conner and said ‘yep, that’s her. She wore a pony tail she was always flapping in people’s faces to get attention, nobody who knew her is surprised by this”
@ eaglesoars:
60 people who knew Brett Kavanaugh have come forward to defend him (never underestimate the power of email among people of good character and the slandering of their wonderful friend):
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/09/26/white-house-more-than-60-people-who-knew-kavanaugh-have-signed-a-letter-to-directly-refute-avenattis-allegations/
I still have seen no verification of or anyone standing up for Swetnick.
The Barbarian wrote:
Her statement says she contemporaneously told 2 other people. Find them.
Here is Ford’s opening statement to the committee for tomorrow’s hearing. I can’t make the font large enough to read it
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1045061285572939776
@ eaglesoars:
You can press Ctrl along with +
That will make the print larger. I read that yesterday and it works!
This should surprise no one
A spokesman for left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is acknowledging that he indirectly funded Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier
Sources have told The Daily Caller News Foundation in the past that Soros helped fund Fusion’s post-election work on Russian interference in the election process
Soros’ spokesman told The Washington Post that Soros donated to the Democracy Integrity Project, a group founded by a former staffer to Sen. Dianne Feinstein
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/26/george-soros-funded-fusion-gps/
@ eaglesoars:
Oh, it’s good. Now there were FOUR boys and two girls – Her, Ingam (Kelsey), Kavanaugh, Judge, Smith and A BOY SHE CAN’T REMEMBER.
Well, that’s convenient. Because since the others have denied it, the conveniently forgotten identify of Boy No. 4 would be the one that LIVED in the house where this happened, then, wouldn’t he?
Really eagles – they should have you and me examine her.
Oh, and even though Kavanaugh used the term “Twilight Zone” today and I used the term for Sunday’s column, I’m not in touch with Judge K and giving him talking points.
Here is a year book pic – no year given – and she does indeed have a pony tail (or braid?) – far right end
https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/1045071373851398145
and a screen shot of what I guess is a dating site. Reviews of Julie. (gulp). not sure how reliable this is but FWIW
https://twitter.com/Solmemes1/status/1045015221805420545
NBC has gone public with a TOTALLY anonymous allegation. BUT – it’s from 1998, so it moves the narrative forward.
—
According to an anonymous complaint sent to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Kavanaugh physically assaulted a woman he socialized with in the Washington, D.C., area in 1998 while he was inebriated.
The sender of the complaint described an evening involving her own daughter, Kavanaugh and several friends in 1998.
“When they left the bar (under the influence of alcohol) they were all shocked when Brett Kavanaugh, shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually.”
“There were at least four witnesses including my daughter.” The writer of the letter provided no names but said the alleged victim was still traumatized and had decided to remain anonymous herself.
———–
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/senate-probing-new-allegation-misconduct-against-kavanaugh-n913581
I believe Deb Ramirez is also currently in Colorado?
Kavanaugh should just quit and walk away from this.
They won, this time.
Possum wrote:
If he does, this will become the new normal.
@ Possum:
get out of my foxhole
@ Possum:
NOW do you begin to understand why I think women who make false accusations should face jail time?
lobo91 wrote:
Exactly
And we have a winner.
A decade ago, Julie Swetnick made a sexual harassment complaint against her former employer, New York Life Insurance. Representing her was the firm run by Debra Katz, who now reps Christine Blasey Ford. She was ultimately paid a financial settlement.
https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1045094799936761856
This is from a WSJ article that is behind a paywall
lobo91 wrote:
Nope, next time then things will be different. For a few days I have been thinking about this. There should be some mechanism in place similar to one of the sections of the English marriage ceremony.
On nomination and before hearings it should be stated publicly.
“speak now or forever hold your peace”
eaglesoars wrote:
I agree, I posted a half thought out comment on DoD a couple of days ago. Still not formulated it fully but…
In a criminal trial a lawyer representing the defendant can “omit” facts, that is OK by me. They are representing a defendant.
In a civil lawsuit, or not even a lawsuit but a lawyer representing an accuser as spokesperson is found to defame a person not only is the client he/she represents is liable to be sued but the lawyer themselves representing the client is also liable to be sued.
Does that make sense?
Possum wrote:
It does, with some latitude for ‘reasonable knowledge/intent’, etc.
We have a SCOTUS ruling here commonly referred to as ‘Sullivan’ that allows well-known people to be defamed w/o consequence. You have to show deliberate malice to win a case if you’re someone like Sarah Palin, who sued the NYT. Barbarian can explain it to you.
Here’s the background on the domestic violence charge file against her.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/ex-boyfriend-filed-restraining-order-against-kavanaugh-accuser-845348
According to Vinneccy, Swetnick threatened him after they broke up and even after he got married to his current wife and had a child.
eaglesoars wrote:
I do not have a dog in this fight so to speak, but as you can see I am not happy with what is happening currently.
In a civil case if an attorney “speaks on behalf of his/her client” then through power of attorney they are equally liable.
In my mind.
Possum wrote:
Here, if the prosecution withholds exculpatory evidence from the defense, a conviction can be tossed. BUT – a big problem I have w/the legal system here – is that prosecutors almost NEVER face consequences.
Do you know that Mueller KNOWINGLY sent 4 innocent men to prison, 2 of whom died there, in order to protect an FBI confidential source?
And don’t get me started on Andrew Weisman, who took out an entire company, Arthur Anderson. All the convictions were eventually overturned, but the damage was done. The company had gone out of business, THOUSANDS of people out of work – and Mueller hired him for the Russia collusion probe. He is still practicing law.
Speaking of lawyers who should be disbarred…
I can’t find a copy of Ford’s opening statement that is legible, but apparently she claims somewhere in there that her email was hacked.
@ eaglesoars:
ok, I found her stmt over at zip’s there’s nothing there about her email being hacked.
There’s a problem with it tho.
She describes going to the house from a day swimming at the club, going upstairs to the bathroom, getting shoved into the bedroom, the assault, running back into the bathroom, then, when she heard the boys go back downstairs, running out of the bathroom, down the stairs, thru the living room and directly out the door.
Where’s her purse?
Possum wrote:
there is, the dems under feinstein broke that rule. this evidence should have been brought up months ago, the thing is, it would have fallen apart by vote time, so it was brought up very late after the ‘hold your peace’ deadline of the committee.
the rules mean nothing to these people. they are in their death throws. the only thing that can save them now is to make judge K walk away. this will piss off enough gop voters who WILL stay home and then the dems will win the mid terms.
at that point, they have 1/3rd of the government back and will cause serious problems.
this is all a last ditched effort to save the mid-terms.
hudge K has to be voted in or this will happen to every appointee. every one of them.
these accusations are a giant load of shit. and it is time to make the dems eat some shit.
dont reward bad behavior
lobo91 wrote:
We are already there, the dems are desperate. The cornered animal…
coldwarrior wrote:
don’t surrender to the enemy.
Christine didn’t have a purse. She had a beach bag. If she spent the day at the club pool, she had a very large beach bag. It was either in the car that transported them from the club to the house, or it was in the house with her.
Wallet, keys, MAKEUP, hairbrush, sunscreen, sunglasses, towel, flipflops –
I find highly unlikely she went home w/o it. Where was it/how did she retrieve it?
eaglesoars wrote:
One other obvious bit missed here. If Kavenaugh was Trump’s favorite pick, why did he pick Neil Gorsuch first? He wasn’t absolutely sure he’d get more than one nominee, so you’d think the favorite would have been the first one.
@ AZfederalist:
nice catch
Possum wrote:
Nope, that sounds just like the Republicans after they, with a majority, cave to the democrats, “This wasn’t the hill to die on, but we’re really gonna take it to them next time”. Except next time isn’t the hill to die on either, and so on ad infinitum.
You do not come out ahead by caving to demagogues. You stop this crap by pushing through and ignoring it. Or you never win again.
oh. wait. This is from her statement to the committee for the hearing tomorrow
But until July 2018, I had never named Mr. Kavanaugh as my attacker outside of therapy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/read-christine-blasey-fords-opening-statement-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court/571366/
Now go back to the twitchy link I posted in #11
eaglesoars wrote:
Here’s the rest of it from the same link
In his response email, Koegler wrote, “I remember you telling me about him, but I don’t remember his name. Do you mind telling me so I can read about him?”
Ford’s emailed response: “Brett Kavanaugh.”
2016
Ford’s attorney’s have not done her any favors. I just drove a truck thru her story and I’m a nobody.
this IS the normal
the dems do this EVERY single time a republican is nominated
sop
the dumbass R senators act surprised
NRA has a great pro-Kavanaugh ad out.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/09/26/watch-nra-blasts-key-democrats-in-jaw-dropping-ad-in-support-of-kavanaugh-n2523005
rain of lead wrote:
“I’m gonna kick that football to the moon!”
More: Judiciary Committee sent letter today to Ford’s attnys requesting 1) audio/visual recordings taken during Fords’s polygraph; and 2) charts/data used in drawing polygraph conclusions. Ford’s attnys just now refused to supply, saying such material not “important.” Really?
There were only 2 questions asked during the polygraph: 1) is your statement true? 2) did you make anything up?
I’m not kidding
https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1045129431218622464
Ollie north and the NRA
telling it like it is
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2018/09/26/watch-nra-blasts-key-democrats-in-jaw-dropping-ad-in-support-of-kavanaugh-n2523005
“Since the election of Donald Trump the character assassinations of good Americans, like Brett Kavanaugh, by those with half his intellect and a fraction of his virtue has been unconscionable,” Oliver said in the ad. “I didn’t hold dying Marines in my arms, defending freedom, so corrupt politicians could disgrace their heroic sacrifice. We the people denounce their character assassination, their hypocrisy, their lies and we proudly stand with Brett Kavanaugh.”
rain of lead wrote:
justice thomas…
indeed, there is nothing new under the sun.
coldwarrior wrote:
Bork did walk away. That only emboldened the Dems. Thomas stood up to it and persevered.
eaglesoars wrote:
If the GOP is to redeem itself at all, and this proves to be true, Christine Blasey-Ford needs to get 5 years for perjury.
@ eaglesoars:
A nobody? Not to me. I’m President of your fan club.
There’s something up at Twitter and I cannot put my finger on where it’s coming from. It involves a “surprise” for Ford at the hearing tomorrow that is going to blow her claims out of the water. I’ve heard something about an email in which she states to someone that the whole claim is “bullshit” (sorry CW). And supposedly now Ford is claiming her email was hacked. I drift in and out of Twitter once I leave the office, so I can’t find the genesis of all this. Hoping Twitchy may have something later or soon.
Oh, and apparently one of the ex-boyfriends of Julie the Gang-Rape Queen took out a restraining order on her because he said she threatened his wife, his family and his infant son. He said she is not to be believed. Looks also like she filed a sexual harassment suit against her former employer, New York Life, and they gave her a settlement* Her attorney in that action? Deborah KATZ.
Someone on Twitter said it better than me: “It sounds like maybe that 4Chan story is true and Deb let Avenutti borrow her rolodex.”
* A lot of these lawsuits for sexual harassment, even if sketchy on the facts, are settled. Employers know that juries tend to be sympathetic to the “victim” and make large awards with punitive damages. Also the costs of litigating one of these cases from Answer to Judgment, can run close to a million bucks, even for a relatively minor matter. Many companies are willing to write a check for $100,000, with a settlement agreement admitting no liability, and an agreement not to disclose.
Jerry Hanafin/Hanafin Plolygraph Services
is the guy who did the Ford polygraph. Lame. Said it’s common to ask just those 2 questions of victims, he usually tests perps.
He was just on with Shannon Bream
@ The Barbarian:
I’ve got everything covered upthread except for the ‘surprise’ tomorrow and her supposed claim that it’s all bullshit.
Her statement to the committee is here but I couldn’t find where she said her email was hacked
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/read-christine-blasey-fords-opening-statement-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court/571366/
I read it. In my mind I put myself in her description of what happened and I realized there was a piece missing. See my #65 and #68 and tell me what you think
Now 2 other men are claiming THEY were the people who had the ‘encounter’ with Ford. Could that be the surprise?
@ eaglesoars:
Do we know if he was a polygraph examiner for the FBI?
These questions are deliberately vague and I understand she was asked them ahead time. I could show no deception on those two questions. We don’t even know if she was answering questions regarding the original handwritten statement or the one she edited.
The photo of her shows her hooked up to a blood pressure monitor – I don’t see any wires leading to the chest hookup or the sensors on the fingers. In that photo I would think the only question she could be asked is “did you know you’re at about 120 over 80 right now?
@ eaglesoars:
Now that would be good. Some have speculated it was at HER house.
@ eaglesoars:
I should never think I come her and break a story. Your analysis is excellent.
On a quick note, watching a rerun of Grace v. Abrams discussing Scott Peterson. Mark Geragos is on basically saying his representation of Peterson was pretty much malpractice. I’ve had a case where Geragos represented the plaintiff. He’s such a hack. I thought he was the dumbest lawyer in America until Avenutti came along.
Time to go cuddle my little Noodle. See you all tomorrow. Should be a 3-ring circus.
@ The Barbarian:
At least Geragos isn’t mentally ill and/or pathologically dishonest.
#METOO, I’m exhausted and I didn’t get paid for any of this, somebody should hire me.
Twitter says this morning that the surprise is going to be the now man who actually had that encounter with Ford with another boy (not Kavanaugh).
new thread
I LIKE this man.