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McConnell calls for investigation into leak of Ford letter
Politico ^ | 10/07/18 | ELANA SCHOR, BURGESS EVERETT

Posted on 10/07/2018 7:11:34 AM PDT by Libloather

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told POLITICO on Saturday that the Judiciary Committee "ought to take a look at" the initial media report of Ford's letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), laying out her assault claim against Kavanaugh. That media report included no details of Ford's allegation, describing its topic as "an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school."

But Republicans have seized on the public disclosure of the letter which the judge's accuser had asked to remain confidential.

"I think It clearly was, honestly, a despicable thing to do to Dr. Ford," McConnell said. "And it kind of underscored the tactics that have been used: It started in committee and then went straight out into the public.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: feinstein; ford; letter; mcconnell
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Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has asked Ford's lawyers to turn over any communications they had with the offices of Feinstein or Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) about the California-based professor's claim against Kavanaugh. But Grassley said in an interview that he hasn't yet decided how much further he should pursue an inquiry into how Ford's letter reached the public eye.

Stop it now or it'll happen again. Maybe give Mueller something to do.

1 posted on 10/07/2018 7:11:34 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Checkmate.


2 posted on 10/07/2018 7:14:05 AM PDT by databoss
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To: Libloather

Go!

You got ‘em by the nose, now kick ‘em in the ass.


3 posted on 10/07/2018 7:14:33 AM PDT by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Libloather

We also need an investigation into the obviously false claims of Miss Gang Bang of 1982. She, and her incredibly unethical attorney, Avenatti.

Prosecute perjurers and disbar their lying lawyers. That is the only way to stop this crap from happening over and over again.


4 posted on 10/07/2018 7:14:35 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Libloather

I’ve seen rumors in the press that it was Schumer who leaked the letter. Or maybe it was Spartacus (aka. Booker)?


5 posted on 10/07/2018 7:15:21 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Libloather

Wow.. Not only are Republicans defending themselves.. Now they are going after the corrupt and criminal DemonRats! WooHoo!


6 posted on 10/07/2018 7:15:52 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Libloather

Hilarious how everyone knows Ford is a liar, but it is actually useful to believe her, and blame Dems for “exploiting” and “exposing” her.


7 posted on 10/07/2018 7:16:45 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Libloather
If they sweep this under the rug it will become the new status quo.

Republicans had better expose this whole thing publicly or be prepared to employ the exact same tactics themselves.

No more rolling over.

8 posted on 10/07/2018 7:17:41 AM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: Libloather

Good for McConnell ... he’s a good man AND a fighter.


9 posted on 10/07/2018 7:17:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (If a Supreme Court justice can't be presumed innocent, what hope do the rest of us have? -Greenfield)
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To: Libloather

<><> The leak of Ford’s confidential letter to Sen. Feinstein must be treated as a crime....it weaponized a charge without corroborating evidence...the leaker wanted to create a public spectacle. Among the casualties was the presumption of innocence, a bedrock of our legal system and Western civilization itself.

<><>The role of Ford’s lawyers must be investigated. One hired by Feinstein’s recommendation, another represents McCabe — suggesting a political operation from the start.

<><> the failure of Ford’s lawyers to turn over key documents reeks of bad faith and perhaps something far more sinister.


10 posted on 10/07/2018 7:17:58 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Libloather

How about having it include suborning perjury by Fords Rat lawyers? Or even perjury by Ford when she lied about the lie detector coaching and the house and flying.... The GOPe was fine this crap when the Rats took out Moore.


11 posted on 10/07/2018 7:18:58 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Ancesthntr

AMEN
I hope that ALL the Judiciary Republicans
have a poster of Margaret Thatcher hanging in their lockers. With the caption “THIS ID NO TIME TO GO WOBBLY” in great big letters


12 posted on 10/07/2018 7:19:41 AM PDT by smvoice (2 Cor.5:20. "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ")
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To: databoss

You mean there was Russian collusion in the Kavanaugh cover-up? We have another Pelosi wrap-up smear. Merchandise it and then Impeach!


13 posted on 10/07/2018 7:21:33 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Libloather

I’m sure that Feinstein will join him i a bipartisan search for the truth.


14 posted on 10/07/2018 7:22:09 AM PDT by djpg
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To: Libloather

I’ll wait until a cell door closes on some Senator, aide, federal bureaucrat or Media type, before getting my hopes up.


15 posted on 10/07/2018 7:22:34 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: montag813

“Hilarious how everyone knows Ford is a liar...”

Given her family’s connections to the CIA and her best friend being an FBI agent it’s possible that Blasey-Ford at some level believes her charges are true, due to hypnosis or other spy-craft. Regardless it is clear that she allowed herself to be used in a brazen political character assassination plot.

There is plenty here to investigate without getting into “blaming the sexual assault victim™”.

Who scrubbed her social media and internet presence and how was that paid for?
Who arranged for her to have a bunch of Hillary political hacks as attorneys?

Did her attorneys really not tell her about the offer for an on-site private interview?


16 posted on 10/07/2018 7:23:04 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: Libloather

Develop and publicize a timeline for the letter. It will much easier for the public to follow and understand, and will be devastating to the Dems, Ford and her lawyers (and those who believe her no matter what)...


17 posted on 10/07/2018 7:24:39 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: AndyJackson

I have no idea what you are saying.


18 posted on 10/07/2018 7:25:08 AM PDT by databoss
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To: smvoice

“THIS *ID* NO TIME TO GO WOBBLY”???!!?

(sighs)....
...cripes.....


19 posted on 10/07/2018 7:28:32 AM PDT by smvoice (2 Cor.5:20. "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ")
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To: Ancesthntr

Investigate them all. This fake psychologist made s*** up as well. I am hundred percent convinced, as she would say.


20 posted on 10/07/2018 7:33:28 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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