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I'm guessing Christine Blasey Ford is not one of the women committee staff are saying falsified their claims
I'm guessing Christine Blasey Ford is not one of the women committee staff are saying falsified their claims
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/20/editorial-lies-and-the-kavanaugh-hearing/After being acquitted in May 1987 of all 10 counts of larceny and fraud — charges that some said were politically motivated — in connection with a New York City subway project, former Reagan administration Labor Secretary Ray Donovan turned to the Bronx prosecutor and famously asked, “Which office do I go to, to get my reputation back?”
That same thought surely has crossed the mind of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh more than once in the year since he barely survived a politically motivated, evidence-free smear campaign by liberal activists and Senate Democrats aimed at blocking his elevation to the high court.
But now, nine Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee may soon provide an answer, of sorts, for Justice Kavanaugh as to where he could go to get his reputation back.
The nine lawmakers are pressing the Justice Department and the FBI to pursue criminal charges against four people who made false rape and sexual-assault allegations against Justice Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearings last year.
Justice Kavanaugh vehemently denied the accusations, and none of them was ever even remotely corroborated. To the contrary, the most high-profile charge — leveled by his primary accuser, Christine Blasey Ford — was never corroborated, not even by her longtime friend Leland Keyser. Ms. Keyser refused to change her story despite being pressured by mutual acquaintances of the two women.
Mrs. Ford’s credibility was totally shredded after she was unable to support her accusation of a sexual assault at a private party in the early 1980s with even the most basic details of when and where it supposedly happened, or how she got there or got home afterward. Moreover, no one she said was at the same party backed up her claim.
All but three of the 12 Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee signed a letter sent Oct. 8 to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking information on the status of the committee’s four referrals for criminal probes, initially submitted a year ago.
“The Committee referred four individuals to the [Justice Department] and FBI for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. 1001 (materially false statements) and 1505 (obstruction), for false statements made to the Committee during the course of its investigation,” the lawmakers wrote. “It also referred two of those same individuals for potential violations of 18 U.S.C. 371 (conspiracy). We seek information about what actions [the Justice Department] and FBI are taking in response to these referrals.”
This pushback by the Judiciary Committee Republicans is as necessary as it is overdue, because as long as there are no legal consequences for making false accusations, liberal activists will continue to employ these hateful, scurrilous tactics.
Character assassination is the end justifying the means at its most disgraceful. What’s also disgraceful is that none of the 10 Judiciary Committee Democrats (and the other three Republicans) signed the letter. Their silence equals complicity.
“[W]hen individuals intentionally mislead the Committee, they divert important Committee resources during time-sensitive investigations and materially impede its work,” the Republican senators’ letter says. “Such acts are not only unfair; they are potentially illegal.”
Curiously, Mrs. Ford is not among the four referred by the senators for possible criminal prosecution. Two of them are Michael Avenatti, an ambulance-and-TV-camera-chasing lawyer with a long and ugly record of legal misconduct, and a client, Julie Swetnick, who accused Justice Kavanaugh and some friends of “targeting women with alcohol/drugs in order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang-rape them.”
The third is Judi Munroe-Leighton, who claimed Justice Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her “several times each in the back seat of a car,” but later admitted to having said so “as a way to grab attention” and that she had never even met the judge. The fourth is Jeffrey Catalan, who claimed the nominee had “assaulted a close friend on a boat in the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1985,” but who later “recanted and apologized on social media for making the false allegation.”
The senators asked that the Justice Department and FBI respond to their inquiry by Oct. 21. Messrs. Barr and Wray should not continue to stall on decisions about prosecuting this foursome’s falsehoods.
Absent severe legal consequences, there will continue to be no downside to the far left’s practice of character assassination against conservative judicial nominees and others it opposes politically.
The legal maxim “Justice delayed is justice denied” even applies to a Supreme Court justice, one who was slimed by leftist ideologues. Justice Kavanaugh deserves to get his good name — and reputation — back.
If nothing else - she’s got to be given credit for being as vague as possible and therefore avoiding the hammer of perjury falling down on her.Well no, not Ford. Even though the borderline activist who scrubbed her social media before speaking made statements that were incredibly dubious, inconsistent, and contested by her own friend/witnesses, there's no actual way to prove that her 36 year old vague memory of a groping was an intentional lie.
This action is more for those individuals who have been proven to have maliciously falsified statements with the intent of harm, stemming from their political bias. Individuals who literally apologized for lying, were caught lying, etc, for the sole reason of them not liking a conservative judge.
After being acquitted in May 1987 of all 10 counts of larceny and fraud — charges that some said were politically motivated — in connection with a New York City subway project, former Reagan administration Labor Secretary Ray Donovan turned to the Bronx prosecutor and famously asked, “Which office do I go to, to get my reputation back?”
That same thought surely has crossed the mind of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh more than once in the year since he barely survived a politically motivated, evidence-free smear campaign by liberal activists and Senate Democrats aimed at blocking his elevation to the high court.
But now, nine Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee may soon provide an answer, of sorts, for Justice Kavanaugh as to where he could go to get his reputation back.
The nine lawmakers are pressing the Justice Department and the FBI to pursue criminal charges against four people who made false rape and sexual-assault allegations against Justice Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearings last year.
Justice Kavanaugh vehemently denied the accusations, and none of them was ever even remotely corroborated. To the contrary, the most high-profile charge — leveled by his primary accuser, Christine Blasey Ford — was never corroborated, not even by her longtime friend Leland Keyser. Ms. Keyser refused to change her story despite being pressured by mutual acquaintances of the two women.
Mrs. Ford’s credibility was totally shredded after she was unable to support her accusation of a sexual assault at a private party in the early 1980s with even the most basic details of when and where it supposedly happened, or how she got there or got home afterward. Moreover, no one she said was at the same party backed up her claim.
All but three of the 12 Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee signed a letter sent Oct. 8 to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray seeking information on the status of the committee’s four referrals for criminal probes, initially submitted a year ago.
“The Committee referred four individuals to the [Justice Department] and FBI for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. 1001 (materially false statements) and 1505 (obstruction), for false statements made to the Committee during the course of its investigation,” the lawmakers wrote. “It also referred two of those same individuals for potential violations of 18 U.S.C. 371 (conspiracy). We seek information about what actions [the Justice Department] and FBI are taking in response to these referrals.”
This pushback by the Judiciary Committee Republicans is as necessary as it is overdue, because as long as there are no legal consequences for making false accusations, liberal activists will continue to employ these hateful, scurrilous tactics.
Character assassination is the end justifying the means at its most disgraceful. What’s also disgraceful is that none of the 10 Judiciary Committee Democrats (and the other three Republicans) signed the letter. Their silence equals complicity.
“[W]hen individuals intentionally mislead the Committee, they divert important Committee resources during time-sensitive investigations and materially impede its work,” the Republican senators’ letter says. “Such acts are not only unfair; they are potentially illegal.”
Curiously, Mrs. Ford is not among the four referred by the senators for possible criminal prosecution. Two of them are Michael Avenatti, an ambulance-and-TV-camera-chasing lawyer with a long and ugly record of legal misconduct, and a client, Julie Swetnick, who accused Justice Kavanaugh and some friends of “targeting women with alcohol/drugs in order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang-rape them.”
The third is Judi Munroe-Leighton, who claimed Justice Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her “several times each in the back seat of a car,” but later admitted to having said so “as a way to grab attention” and that she had never even met the judge. The fourth is Jeffrey Catalan, who claimed the nominee had “assaulted a close friend on a boat in the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1985,” but who later “recanted and apologized on social media for making the false allegation.”
The senators asked that the Justice Department and FBI respond to their inquiry by Oct. 21. Messrs. Barr and Wray should not continue to stall on decisions about prosecuting this foursome’s falsehoods.
Absent severe legal consequences, there will continue to be no downside to the far left’s practice of character assassination against conservative judicial nominees and others it opposes politically.
The legal maxim “Justice delayed is justice denied” even applies to a Supreme Court justice, one who was slimed by leftist ideologues. Justice Kavanaugh deserves to get his good name — and reputation — back.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/20/editorial-lies-and-the-kavanaugh-hearing/
Fuck yes! There are still idiots on here who pretend they believe Ford. She should be in prison as should everyone who orchestrated that bullshit.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...der-to-susan-collins-following-kavanaugh-voteA jury in Maine found a woman guilty of sending threatening letters to Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins after she voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Suzanne Muscara, 37, was found guilty of sending a threatening letter to Collins’s home that was filled with white powder and a note that said, “AnthRAX!!! HA HA HA!!!”
Muscara’s letter was intercepted by FBI agents who had been screening Collins’s mail after a letter sent the week prior had also contained a threatening substance.
Muscara claimed she didn’t think anyone would read the letter and thought it was a harmless joke.
“I didn’t want anything to happen,” she said when questioned by the FBI. “I just thought it was funny. I thought cops were, like, sifting through her mail. I didn’t expect anyone significant would read it.”
Beyond the threatening note, Muscara had drawn a stick person with its tongue out and the letter ‘X’ for eyes. The letter was addressed to the senator’s current home with a prior home listed as the return address.
She also denied that she knew who Collins was or that she had made one of the deciding votes to confirm Kavanaugh after his controversial nomination process.
Muscara was identified as the culprit after her fingerprint was matched to the one on file after a 2013 arrest. The sender from the original letter is still unknown.
Muscara has yet to be sentenced, but she faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
“I didn’t want anything to happen,” she said when questioned by the FBI. “I just thought it was funny. I thought cops were, like, sifting through her mail. I didn’t expect anyone significant would read it.”
This is how I feel basically, too.I voted "not sure" because there are believable aspects of both sides.
I believe Brett is probably a shitty person and I believe the accusers have reasons to be upset, but you can't be destroying people in the court of public opinion without really strong evidence and the accusers only have their word. Its okay to believe the and empathize with them, but you can't take a man's life down based on that.
Brett was a shitty nominee who should have never been put forth in the first place and should be used as a reason for Judge Nominee reform. No judge should be available for these high Courts if they do not score above 70% in a peer review by the ABA. All nominees should be submitted in private and if a minimum peer score is not achieved, they are off the list.
Brett, like Bill Barr is a party partisan hit-man type who puts partisan goals over the law. Brett was brought into the Clinton impeachment search by Ken Starr for just that reason and it was said Starr would not go as far as Brett wanted in many areas. Barr was brought in to provide cover now for 2 POTUS and their illegal actions.
The goal should not be 'should they be removed' and should be 'should they have ever got the job'.
https://www.businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-accuser-judy-munro-leighton-2018-11
'I was angry, and I sent it out': Woman admits she fabricated a claim about writing an anonymous letter that accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
https://www.businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-accuser-judy-munro-leighton-2018-11
'I was angry, and I sent it out': Woman admits she fabricated a claim about writing an anonymous letter that accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault
I am guessing she's angry because the me too movement was happening, Trump was the president and MSM with the dems wanted to find any way to stop a Supreme court nominee and the mud stuck on the wall for a second so they went full simple Jack on it because it was a plan of attack.angry about what? What did he ever do to her?
So fucking stupid to try and ruin someone's life because you're butt hurt. I cannot read the article because of ad-blocker and the site looks like a mess, but is there any legal action?