Posted on 04/09/2015 5:27:57 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
A top-ranking official at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has emerged as a potentially key figure in Rolling Stone’s false article, “A Rape on Campus.”
Catherine Lhamon, who heads the Department’s civil rights wing, was identified in a letter sent last month by University of Virginia Dean of Students Allen Groves to Steve Coll and Sheila Coronel, the two Columbia Journalism School deans who conducted a review of the Nov. 19 article, written by disgraced reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely.
Groves’ letter was included as a footnote to the Columbia deans’ report, which was released on Sunday and cataloged the failures and lies that led to the article’s publication.
In the letter, Groves wrote that he has suffered “personal and professional” damage as a result of Erdely’s reporting and comments Lhamon made about him which were included in the article.
As the Rolling Stone article fell apart, Lhamon’s involvement has gone virtually unmentioned. But a deeper look reveals her ties to Emily Renda, a University of Virginia employee and activist who put Erdely in touch with Jackie, the student whose claim that she was brutally gang-raped by seven members of a fraternity on Sept. 28, 2012, served as the linchpin for the 9,000-word Rolling Stone article. President Obama nominated Lhamon to become the Education Department’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in July 2013. The Senate approved her unanimously the following month.
She has served as the Education Department’s designee to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault which Obama created on Jan. 22, 2014. Renda served on the same task force.
Besides that link, both spoke at a February 2014 University of Virginia event entitled “Sexual Misconduct Among College Students.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Renda and Lhamon also testified at a June 26, 2014, Senate hearing on campus sexual assault. It was at that hearing that Renda cited Jackie’s story that she was brutally gang-raped by five fraternity members — a statement that was inconsistent with Jackie’s claim to Erdely that she was raped by seven men. According to the Columbia report, Renda first told Erdely about Jackie’s allegation on July 8, nearly two weeks after her Senate testimony.
DoE emulating the DoJustUs?
Both 5 and 7 are prime numbers and thus guilty...
This was a planned “hanging” by Obola, withHolder,
and the DO”E”.
There should be accountability, but there is no more
Law, no more justice, and no more integrity in
what was once, America.
Both 5 and 7 are prime numbers and thus guilty...
???
Cue Claude Rains...
And they’ll learn from their mistakes and orhestrate it better next time.
Lib logic...
It was orchestrated from an episode of wishful thinking. I wonder if Jackie has convinced herself it all really happened?
Yes. Or she believes that men are all rapists that just haven't done it yet, so this was merely a justified preemptive strike.
Fake people...fake lives! People only believe this crap because they want to. Guess it makes them feel superior or something.
IS she still on campus?
I’ve seen her somewhere before...
Let me think...
Why is it that it is the ugly feminazis that perpetuate these hoaxes? Wouldn’t it be easier if they just become friendly, social creatures, met a nice guy and had a life together?
Saddens me that some day in the not too distant future, on EoE forms it will say, AA, Latino, Eskimo, LGBT, Ugly Woman?
oh. you mean the less than 1%ers that tell the rest of us how to live.
Happens all the time.
Here's an old story (1987). I had just been appointed director of a major unit at a NY hospital. Our scope was much in the news (AIDS/HIV). I got a call from a prominent "advocate" inviting me to testify before a Senate committee considering $$ for my institution. After my testimony, I would have lunch with the Chairman and a few other bigwigs, and a press conference.
I just had to tell the stories of a few patients who had been fired from their jobs, kicked out of their apartments, or disowned by their families.
Problem was, I had no such patients.
"Don't worry",the advocate said, "we have a script".
We...have...a...script.
I was just a kid back then, and I have never looked at testimony before Congress (by anybody) in the same way again.
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