Posted on 10/04/2018 10:06:29 PM PDT by kingattax
The Senate Judiciary Committee released an executive summary of the FBI's supplemental background report into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh late Thursday, which key swing-vote senators vowed they would continue to review Friday ahead of a major vote on his confirmation.
According to the summary, released by the Republican committee majority, FBI agents interviewed 10 people and reached out to 11, focusing only on witnesses with potential first-hand knowledge of alleged sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh.
"The FBI provided to the Senate 12 detailed FD-302 reports summarizing their interviews with the witnesses as well as supporting materials cited by the witnesses during their interviews," the summary reads.
Among those questioned were Mark Judge, PJ Smyth, and Leland Keyser, the three individuals Christine Blasey Ford claimed were present when Kavanaugh allegedly threw her on a bed and sexually assaulted her sometime in the 1980s (Ford has variously claimed the episode occurred in the mid-1980s and early 1980s, before testifying that it occurred in 1982).
All three of those individuals had already provided statements to the Judiciary Committee under penalty of felony denying any knowledge of the alleged assault. Keyser, Ford's lifelong best friend, denied ever knowing Kavanaugh. When questioned about Keyser's statement at last Thursday's hearing, Ford suggested Keyser was having serious medical issues and had apologized for her denial.
Judge was also questioned extensively about other allegations besides Ford's.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“The Supplemental Background Investigation confirms what the Senate Judiciary Committee concluded after its investigation: there is no corroboration of the allegations made by Dr. Ford or Ms. Ramirez,” the Judiciary Committee Republicans wrote.
“The Supplemental Background Investigation confirms what the Senate Judiciary Committee concluded after its investigation: there is no corroboration of the allegations made by Dr. Ford or Ms. Ramirez,” the Judiciary Committee Republicans wrote.
It is over, so vote already!
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, considered a key potential swing vote on Kavanaugh, said Thursday that the bureau’s supplemental background probe “appears to be a very thorough investigation.”
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Sen. Flake, who originally requested the FBI re-open its investigation into the sexual assault claims leveled against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, agreed with Collins’ assessment.
“No new corroborative information came out of it,” Flake said. “Thus far, we’ve seen no new credible corroboration — no new corroboration at all.”
“No new corroborative information came out of it,” Flake said. “Thus far, we’ve seen no new credible corroboration — no new corroboration at all.”
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Hey, Flake, got any old corroboration?
So, her life long best friend denies the allegations you made and included them in and then you turn around and claim THEY are the ones with health issues. That makes perfect sense to me./s
From “Amos & Andy”:
I not only denies the allegations, I denies the alligator!
So what else could Collins and Flake possibly do but vote to confirm? I can’t conceive of any logical explanation to justify voting otherwise. Of course, not much Flake and Collins do is logical. Murkowski worries me, i confess.
“Well, that report — if that’s an investigation, it’s a bull—— investigation,” Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., told a man as he walked through the Capitol complex on Thursday. “The reality is, that was not a full and thorough investigation.”
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Well, Senator, there’s a pile of poop in one of NJ’s Senate seats.
In other words, all the witnesses confirmed what we know already.
But according to the Rats, unless Kavanaugh is anal probed ten times from
Sunday, we still don’t know if he measures up,
Even then, they still wouldn’t vote for him. Because no matter what the FBI did, it would never be enough. Of course.
read it all - not behind a paywall:
5 Oct: WSJ: Friend of Dr. Ford Felt Pressure to Revisit Statement
At issue is statement to committee that she knew nothing about alleged sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh
By Natalie Andrews, Rebecca Ballhaus and Sadie Gurman; Alexandra Berzon contributed to this article
A friend of Christine Blasey Ford told FBI investigators that she felt pressured by Dr. Ford’s allies to revisit her initial statement that she knew nothing about an alleged sexual assault by a teenage Brett Kavanaugh, which she later updated to say that she believed but couldn’t corroborate Dr. Ford’s account, according to people familiar with the matter.
Leland Keyser, who Dr. Ford has said was present at the gathering where she was allegedly assaulted in the 1980s, told investigators that Monica McLean, a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a friend of Dr. Ford’s, had urged her to clarify her statement, the people said.
The statement to the FBI offers a glimpse into how Dr. Ford’s allies were working behind the scenes to lobby old classmates to bolster their versions of the alleged incident, as were Judge Kavanaugh’s...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/friend-of-dr-ford-felt-pressure-to-revisit-statement-1538715152
They need to refer Fords testimony over to justice for possible perjury! After the Kavanaugh vote of coarse..
LOL... sounds like a line from Calhoun the Lawyer.
If Flake and Collins vote yes, and Murkowski votes no, then Pence breaks the tie and kavanaugh is confirmed
Sure thing, you lying ass b*tch.
Can't you just picture Collins with question marks still swirling around her head?
Who knows how that dope is going to vote?
Thanks for that supplemental link!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3693735/posts?page=13#13
Madness. Still too many ifs, ands, or buts in the pie for me.
We need a stronger majority in the Senate.
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