It is the same strategy used on Kavanaugh.
It is the same strategy used on Kavanaugh.
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Yes.
Goes all the way back to Clarence Thomas, 27 years ago.
Hearings are wrapping up, it looks like he’s going to be approved by the Senate to the SCOTUS, and then a raw FBI report is leaked to Nina Totenberg of NPR. First reports are that the unidentified woman (Anita Hill) does not want to go public and testify. That doesn’t work to get Thomas to withdraw or scare off enough votes for him, so then the witness comes forward and does testify.
And it was the same thing Comey used in 2017 to get Moeller appointed as a special council. Comey leaks confidential memos to NYT via his accomplice and it works.
It’s a very old playbook.