So, as suspected, the report by the FBI was basically 302's of anyone who was a potential eye-witness of either the allegations brought forth by Christine Ford and Deborah Ramirez. Apparently when your allegations include unsubstantiated claims of mass drugging, gang rapes, and your attorney is Michael Avenatti, then the FBI is not interested in talking to you.
The FBI expanded the Christine Ford allegation to include some other students who attended known parties from Kavanaugh's own calendar. Ramirez and two others she identified were also interview, while a third refused to testify. By all indications, none of the witnesses could corroborate what either accuser claimed.
Moreover, Leland Keyser stated in her FBI interview that she got pressure from the Ford camp, and specifically from an ex-FBI agent who is tight with Ford, to change her testimony. This would account to real witness tampering, and would further erode any credibility left for Christine Ford and her case.
Witness tampering anyone?
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It's starting to look like the GOP will at least have the votes to move past cloture. There are still several publicly "uncommitted" Senators (Flake, Collins, Murkowski, Manchin) but with Collins suggesting she will provide a statement at 3:00 today on the Senate floor, one would suspect that she is a "yes" for cloture. I suspect she knows more about what the other uncommitted Senators are planning than anyone else.
Manchin stated that he wanted to go through the FBI reports another time before making a decision, which comes hours after suggesting that he would judge Kavanaugh on what he did as a Judge, rather than as a student. Flake got everything he wanted, and appeared satisfied yesterday. Murkowski has been quiet throughout this whole process.
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Collins claims to still be undecided, but is voting "yes" for cloture. Flake also appears to be a "yes" on cloture, but has made no statements.
There would be little reason for Collins to vote "yes" for cloture if she had already made up her mind to vote "no" overall. That would do little more than unnecessarily delay the process. If you are going to kill the process, then kill it this morning. Why schedule a final floor vote that is already doomed to fail. She is either still actually undecided or wants to play undecided until making a larger statement as to why she might be a yes vote. Or she is being the ultimate drama queen (which is not in her nature).
Flake is a Yes.
Manchin in a Yes.
Murkowski is a No.
Interesting. So it will come down to Collins and/or Flake. If either of those two decide to oppose the nomination, then Manchin's "yes" will quickly become a "no" and Kavanaugh will be done.
And then the Democrats hope for a blue wave will evaporate just as quickly.
Manchin in a Yes.
Murkowski is a No.
Interesting. So it will come down to Collins and/or Flake. If either of those two decide to oppose the nomination, then Manchin's "yes" will quickly become a "no" and Kavanaugh will be done.
And then the Democrats hope for a blue wave will evaporate just as quickly.
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Apperently that was not the only witness tampering going on. There seems to be coordinated coaching from Ford's team and other Democrats activist with other witnesses on Ford's list.
you know, when you stop and think about it...
if dr. cray cray was serious, and if democrats really did want to slow down or stop the kavanaugh process, all that had to happen was the filing of criminal charges against kavanaugh by ford.
that would've stopped this thing dead in it's tracks, and we'd be well past the midterms before it was even close to being resolved.
in case you were wondering how "mavericky jr." flake is going to vote -
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If Flake votes yes, protesters accuse him of supporting rape for the rest of his life. If he votes no, he gets the JFK Profile in Courage Award, the teaching gig at Harvard, the MSNBC gig and the big book deal "Flake, Not Flaky: Conscience and Justice in Trump's America"
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The lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford's "beach friend"-- the one who worked for the FBI in the office of former Schumer staffer Preet Bharara--just so happens to be the FBI official who oversaw the Clinton e-mail and Trump Russia probes. What a coincidence!
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And it's just a coincidence that one of Ford's lawyers just so happens to be fired former FBI official Andrew McCabe's lawyer. So many fun coincidences!
Sorry Jeff Flake...
But CNN has enough "real" liberals to host their shows. They don't need a pretend liberal who was a Republican his whole life, until a few months before he resigns.
Flake is the one that looks like the biggest idiot if he votes "yes" but calls for a one week delay to allow an FBI investigation. Then he gets his investigation, states he is happy with the FBI investigation, and then one week later votes "no".
Collins to announce Kavanaugh position on Friday afternoon
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Collins to announce Kavanaugh position on Friday afternoon
GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) is planning to announce her position on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Friday afternoon from the Senate floor.
Collins will say whether she supports President Trump's nominee during a 3 p.m. speech, according to NBC News and CNN.
A spokeswoman for Collins didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about the senator's planned remarks.
The timeline means Collins will have to cast an initial vote this morning on whether to end debate on Kavanaugh's nomination before her position is known.
The Senate is scheduled to hold a vote to end debate on Kavanaugh's nomination at 10:30 a.m.
It wouldn't be the first time Collins has supported a nomination during a procedural hurdle and then later voted against the nominee.
In a dramatic moment last year, Collins announced from the Senate floor that she would vote for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during an initial procedural hurdle but said she could not support her on a final confirmation vote.
The opposition to DeVos from Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) made DeVos the first Cabinet secretary to need a vice president to cast a decisive, tie-breaking confirmation vote.
Flake is the one that looks like the biggest idiot if he votes "yes" but calls for a one week delay to allow an FBI investigation. Then he gets his investigation, states he is happy with the FBI investigation, and then one week later votes "no".
true, but he's beholden to his potential paymasters within academia and the media. not his constituents. lying to arizonans and looking like an idiot seems to come naturally to recent senators from arizona.
A man who has actual human emotions and a belief that men should not be allowed to be sexual predators is a far better person than you.
Flake is a man who has actual human emotions and a belief that men should not be allowed to be sexual predators is a far better person than you.
What sort of person would call another person a sexual predator without a single shred of evidence?
one who has no ethics, morals, and allows politics to guide their souls...
fuck you and fuck your emotions, alky.
you assholes have corroborated exactly 0% of ford's story.
zero.
you have had the gall to ruin a man's life, family, honor, and reputation over a fucking lie.
emotions, drama queen, are the fucking problem here. this situation needs to be judged on the facts. not emotions.
What sort of person would call another person a sexual predator without a single shred of evidence?
one who has no ethics, morals, and allows politics to guide their souls...
that's the most ghoulish part of this whole situation. all of the personal destruction, all of the histrionics, all of the evil that's been perpetuated against kavanaugh has all been done in the name of continuing a slaughter.
I am curious Roger..
Why do you suppose Christine Ford told her therapist in 2012 that she the attempted assault came in her late teens and that it effected her college school work?
Why would she confuse something that she now says happened in 1982 when she was 15 and a sophomore in high school with something that she believed in 2012 happened when she was likely a senior in high school?
Why do you supposed Ford lied about why she was in marriage counseling in the first place? Why lie about the second door? Why lie about a fear of flying? Why lie about a fear of confined spaces? Why lie about any of it?
Why have people go harass potential witnesses into changing their recollection of events?
Why (when nobody corroborates her story even a bit) do you still believe her?
Why (when nobody corroborates her story even a bit) do you still believe her?
i don't think he does believe her. i don't think most of those opposing kavanaugh believe her. liberals are, at their core, intellectually dishonest. it's easier for them to feign believing her than it is to admit this is about abortion and only about abortion.
the only people that liberals can manage to dupe anymore are those who willfully - and in some cases enthusiastically - want to be duped.
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