[Townhall] Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Saturday sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, expressing concerns about the department's investigation into Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Hatch's main concern stems from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers refusing to convey the Senate Judiciary Committee's previous interview offerings, which forced Ford to testify in front of the public.
Here's a copy of the letter (emphasis mine):
The Honorable Christopher Wray
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Dear Director Wray:
I write regarding President Donald J. Trump's recent request that the FBI conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Brett Kavanaugh's background investigation file. The President noted that this request should be limited to scope and completed in one week from yesterday.
With your leadership and professional career staff handling the matter. I have no doubt that the FBI is capable of conducting the necessary interviews well within that time frame. It is my understanding that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and those identified as attending the gathering at which the alleged assault took place have publicly agreed to cooperate with the investigation.
I am writing to request, however, that you notify the White House Counsel's Office immediately if any witness(es) or their representatives seek to delay or are uncooperative in this process. One key reason for my concern regarding possible delay comes from testimony during the hearing this past Thursday. According to Dr. Ford, she would have preferred to have been interviewed in California, away from the spectacle of a public hearing. But her lawyers apparently refused to convey to their client numerous offers by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to conduct a public or private interview in the location of her choosing. The lawyers' refusal led directly to a public hearing, against Dr. Ford's express wishes. This is deeply troubling.
The FBI is widely renowned for conducting fair, thorough, and expeditious investigations. Those Senators and members of the public who feel that additional investigation is required can trust this matter will be handled fairly.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Senator Orrin G. Hatch
The FBI is currently updating Kavanaugh's background check with a limited investigation which is supposed to span one week.
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But her lawyers apparently refused to convey to their client numerous offers by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to conduct a public or private interview
Of course not! No media circus if done privately.
Feinstein and her cohorts knew precisely what they were doing. Timing was everything. She tosses in a grenade at the last minute as she walks out of the tent. Arizona Rhino Flake was the weak sister, so they went after him as well.
I'm awaiting a news bulletin that will announce that the obviously troubled and medicated PhD Ford has suffered a tragic Marilyn Monroe.
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But her lawyers apparently refused to convey to their client numerous offers by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to conduct a public or private interview in the location of her choosing.
#4
A violation, perhaps, but if Christine has two brain cells to rub together, it means she should be seeking another attorney. One who has her interests at heart.
I'm supposing there is such a person.
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#5
"White pawn to rook's.."
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[Red State] While the drama surrounding the hearing on the "allegation" by Christine Ford was going on a different drama was playing out on Wikipedia. Someone, or some group of people, was editing the biographies of Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee making public their private phone numbers and their home addresses.
Personal information of Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch were posted by an unknown person located in the House of Representatives on Thursday during the hearing of Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
The information, which supposedly included home addresses and phone numbers, was posted ‐ or doxxed ‐ on the senators’ respective Wikipedia pages, where users are allowed to update the information at any time. The information has since been removed.
Does this mean that Waters’s staff tried to expose sensitive personal information about three Republican Senators? I am not conversant with how the IT system in the House of Representatives is configured. I know that the IP range 143.231.249.0 ‐ 143.231.249.255 is assigned to the House of Representatives. People who claim to be experts say that the odds that this woman did it are low but the common IP address indicates it is in a block of IP addresses assigned to Waters’s office.
Regardless, it shows with specificity that someone in the House was trying to make personal information on three US Senators very public for what can only be retaliation in how Ford’s hearing was going. One would think that with a time hack and IP, the office using that IP could be identified. Assuming anyone is interested in finding out.
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I know that the IP range 143.231.249.0 ‐ 143.231.249.255 is assigned to the House of Representatives. People who claim to be experts say that the odds that this woman did it are low but the common IP address indicates it is in a block of IP addresses assigned to Waters’s office.
Dates and specific times of the DOXX emails (and others from those IP's) might be interesting. I suppose those computers have now been disappeared.
#8
Just find out who Mad Max promoted, with a bonus, that afternoon.
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"I work at Whole Foods in the Ink Block
Promoting the interests of Ingsoc
Since fired by Ms. Waters.
My four feline daughters
Address me as She-tongzhi S-ngst-ck!"
[Wash Times] Leland Keyser stood to be the perfect witness for Christine Blasey Ford by confirming critical events that would bolster her charges against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
But she wasn’t.
She has ended up helping the nominee on two crucial questions as the confirmation process shifts from emotion-filled hearings on Thursday to a one-week FBI investigation.
Ms. Keyser was among Ms. Ford’s best friends at Holton-Arms, the all-girl private school in Bethesda not far from Mr. Kavanaugh’s boy-only Georgetown Preparatory.
As best friends to this day, it was expected that Ms. Keyser would confirm Ms. Ford assertions: Ms. Keyser was with her on the night sometime in 1982 that Mr. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in an upstairs bedroom in a home in Chevy Chase or Bethesda during a lightly attended party. She also said Ms. Keyser socialized with the other attendees, meaning Mr. Kavanaugh.
Before this week’s Ford-Kavanaugh hearing, Ms. Keyser sent an email to the Senate Judiciary Committee, via her attorney Howard J. Walsh III, denying this. She has no recollection of such a party, she said.
"Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford," Mr. Walsh said.
On Saturday morning, after President Trump authorized a one-week FBI probe into Ms. Ford’s charges, Mr. Walsh again repeated her denial in a new statement to committee staff.
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I sure hope the Don flipped Rod of Rose Mountain and frau Doctor Professor will learn, personally, about FBI's justly famous perjury entrapment technique.
#7
A POX on these misery merchant SNL people.
I loved SNL back with John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Roseanne Roseannadanna Gilda Radner. Sad that it's evolved into such a political hate piece along with all the other late night shows.
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Long. You’ll want a cup of coffee or your favourite equivalent to accompany this one, dear Reader, which is why we saved it for Sunday.
[Jpost] Erdan is responsible for the fight against BDS in the Strategic Affairs Ministry, and the steps he has taken in that battle are controversial and unconventional.
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In the first ministry, Erdan is in charge of police and will soon be selecting a new chief to continue efforts against the so-called "lone-wolf terrorists," like the 17-year-old who murdered Fuld. That stabbing took place in Gush Etzion, where the police don’t have jurisdiction, but most lone-wolf attacks have been in Jerusalem, which has been the focus of Erdan’s new strategy in fighting terrorism.
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[Daily Wire] CRTV host Allie Beth Stuckey was booed during the 2018 Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas after she said that unconditionally believing all women is unjust while she defended Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
"I'm devastated to see a man's life almost in ruins based on uncorroborated and unsubstantiated allegations," Stuckey told the audience. "I'm devastated by the thought of a world in which people are guilty until proven innocent and the burden of proof is on the accused."
"I listened to both of their testimonies and while I think both are believable, I think only Kavanaugh is credible," Stuckey continued. "He's the only one that has any substantiation for anything that he said; he's the only one with any corroboration; he's the only one who has gone through six FBI background checks; the only one that has any evidence for anything that he is saying and witnesses to back up what he's saying."
"He's the only one that has that and yet we're supposed to unconditionally believe the woman?" Stuckey asked the crowd. "Why? Because of her anatomy?"
h/t Instapundit
I'm trying to be adult in my response to yet another delay in Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. I can understand why some Senate Republicans wanted a further investigation, and why President Trump acceded to their wishes. They have a one-vote - one single vote - margin in the Senate, and at least three RINO senators who may, for their own reasons, prefer not to support Judge Kavanaugh. If they're lucky, they may get one or two Democratic senators to support him . . . but that still means that his confirmation is not certain. It may be that the Vice-President will have to cast a tie-breaking ballot to decide the issue. That would be anything but ideal, and would open to question any ruling of the Supreme Court in which Mr. Kavanaugh's vote was decisive. The Administration is bending over backwards to avoid going to such extremes, and get him confirmed by even one vote rather than risk such consequences. IMO, any ruling of the Supreme Court in which Mr. Kavanaugh's vote was decisive will be questioned regardless
Nevertheless, I'm sickened by the arrogance, dishonesty and partisanship displayed by so many Senators in recent days. Democrats, in particular, have abandoned any semblance of decency. Acting B. Hard
...We live - or are supposed to live - according to the rule of law in these United States. The Kavanaugh hearings have shown that for too many of us, the rule of law is no longer relevant. It's become the rule of feelings, the rule of sympathy, the rule of partisan bias. Facts no longer matter. Proof no longer matters. It's all about how we perceive things. In a conflict between these who go by feelz and these who been taught self-control, the feelz people initially win - however, eventually, daddy spanks.
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Grom, you and the original author both accept too much of the enemy's lies if you assume they feel any way at all. They're sociopaths pretending to have various feelings for purposes of emotional manipulation.
They don't really believe what they're saying, why do we pretend that they do even as we go about trying to prove them wrong?
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GOP is responding the way they are because the female population of the US is watching them and they don't want to play into the Dems hands. They are actually being fairly clever so far although the investigation should have begun while they were haggling over her showing up or not so that evidence could have been presented at the hearing on Thursday.
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I'm talking about both Ford and Feinstein. And, once you get down to the nitty-gritty details, Flake and Collins and Moo Cow Ski.
I don't know about Grassley
And yeah, they have feelings, but what's on the outside doesn't match what's on the inside. Under the tears, they're laughing at us. And by negotiating with them as if they might believe what they're saying only encourages them.
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When the senate committee reconvenes in public to review the FBI investigation results a senate republican should ask the FBI a series of questions: was it Bill Clinton who really assulted Dr Ford?, was it Ted Kennedy? Was it Brock Adams...... was it dick Durban? Was it Jeff flake?
#10
Raj, I know they'll never been satisfied, but it would have been nice on Thursday to have the GOP announce the FBI investigated all the info she has provided and barring new information provided in this hearing...
#11
I have a hopeful sense of the Trump battle plan.
The FBI will find nothing and shut down the sex inquiry. They will be hated by the Left, Trump gets his judge placed and the Left believes in the FBI no longer. The Mueller project dies a timely death and agents of the Left fall under inspection.
The FBI lightly engages and comes up with a report that simply rehashes the rumor content and is too weak to substantiate anything. They have acted and the public is informed. Another 'no reason' to not vote for the guy. Vilified by both right and left, the Mueller project dies.
In either scenario and many more the FBI is called to action by the President for 'ancient' sex crimes and past behavior by public figures. The window of precedence and pool of candidates are opened wide.
DOJ is stunned into action at the President's behest by it's own agency.
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Then there is this:
HOLD EVERYTHING! I can't IMAGINE how this slipped my mind for 38 years, but I JUST REMEMBERED that Diane Feinstein groped me at a political fundraiser in a San Francisco hotel in 1980. I can't remember which hotel, or exactly when it was. For that matter I don't remember why I would have been attending a political fundraiser for Diane Feinstein or how I got there. But I'm SURE it was her, although I'll admit I was pretty drunk at the time and most of the evening is pretty sketchy in my memory. Sorry I waited until she decided to make a three-ring circus out of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings to bring this up, but both my counselor and my attorney felt this was the right time. I tried to speak with Senator Feinstein personally but every time I called, the guy who answered her cellphone spoke Chinese and I guess he couldn't understand me. My attorney will be demanding a full Senate and FBI investigation of Senator Feinstein before my new tell-all memoir is published in October.
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The FBI investigation might really be about goading Kavanaugh or members of his family into making false statements to the FBI, assuming the FBI won't be acting in good faith.
The statements might actually be irrelevant as to the accusations; they might even be true but unprovable.
What matters is that they might be used to prosecute or to credibly threaten prosecution.
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The FBI will investigate as directed. Let's hope Deepstaters are not charged with The task. The left will then move the bar up. They will never be satisfied. I've seen this before. Their strategy is to ask for the impossible and then criticize for not meeting their impossible demands. Might have been best to just f#$k you very much to them although the optics would be terrible and their would likely be political fallout.
Just step back from all the noise and look at what is happening with the "news" coverage about Brett Kavanaugh. The root of this story is simply one woman's partially recovered memory of something she says happened 36 years ago. The story is completely unsupported by any other evidence. All of the people who she says were at the party have denied under oath that it happened.
People who say "we need to get to the bottom of this" need to understand that the unsupported story is the bottom of this, the top of this, and the middle of this. The memory, with no support, is all there is.
There is no "where" to investigate. There is no "when" to investigate. There is just a story that cannot possibly be proven, which is why no prosecutor would ever bring charges on this case. There is no need to prove anything. That woman's feelings were hurt by the nasty man - lynch him!
Republicans should have simply stated in the beginning that the vote would not be stopped by this woman's recovered memory. They could have said Senator Feinstein showed the correct judgment initially when she withheld the unsupportable accusation and did not mention it for months.
But they didn't do that, and the extremely destructive circus ensued (just the way the Democrats had hoped). It is far from being over. Just watch.
What I would like to focus on is not the flimsy case against a good man, but how the media and the Democrats (redundant, I know) control the narrative. Evidence has almost nothing to do with the narratives they sell. The political goal is always primary; facts are secondary and unnecessary. The Kavanaugh case is a good example, but there are many other "big" stories that are based on little or nothing. Democrats' thirst for power is nothing "little". Neither is the Republicans' desire to pretend that it is still the same two-party political system you had before FDR.
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[Wash Times] Leland Keyser stood to be the perfect witness for Christine Blasey Ford by confirming critical events that would bolster her charges against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
