How Deep Is This Education Official’s Involvement In The Rolling Stone Hoax?

http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/08/how-deep-is-this-education-officials-involvement-in-the-rolling-stone-hoax/ ^

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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.”

[Travis McGee]

I have not heard otherwise. Honor trials are not kept secret. Or, she might have quietly disenrolled rather than face a trial. But I think we would have heard of that.

[wildbill]

The Senate hearing was on C-Span. There were several activists who argued for more agressive oversight and penalties against schools where alleged sexual assaults occur.

Using an example under oath which has now been discredited before a committee of Congress is a very serious matter.

[Jim Noble]

“Using an example under oath which has now been discredited before a committee of Congress is a very serious matter”

Congress is a whorehouse and there is nothing in the least bit serious about it.

[moehoward]

"And they’ll learn from their mistakes and orhestrate it better next time."

Ineptitude of the highest order with this administration. Talk about JV...