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Kavanaugh accuser asks Senate to limit press access for hearing
The Washington Times ^ | September 25, 2018 (Tuesday) | Stephen Dinan and Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 09/25/2018 7:06:48 PM PDT by Texas Fossil

Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers have asked senators to limit the press who will be allowed in the room to cover Thursday’s hearing with her and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and sought to dictate at least some of the outlets.

Coverage is one of a number of issues Ms. Blasey Ford’s lawyers are negotiating with Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Michael Bromwich said in emails sent Tuesday afternoon that he was requesting access for three “robocams,” three specific wire services, photographers from the Associated Press, Reuters and one unspecified service, and a pool reporter for newspapers and magazines. In a follow-up email he specified that the robocams should be operated by “the CSPAN TV pool,” and said he also wanted space for a radio reporter.

Those emails were among several seen by The Washington Times detailing the tense negotiations between Ms. Blasey Ford’s team and committee staff.

While committees sometimes limit press based on space at hearings, and some witnesses have arranged to have their identities shielded, longtime Capitol Hill watchers struggled to think of precedent for a witness dictating terms of press coverage.

In Ms. Blasey Ford’s case she has received threats since she went public with her story, and her team has insisted the committee guarantee her safety as she testifies, as well as limited access to the hearing.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blowsey; christineblaseyford; christineford; doctorblowsey; ford; limit; press; senate
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To: M. Thatcher

This will be the easiest cross examination ever. It is difficult to keep lies straight and cross will expose that.

Hell even we could devastate her claims.


101 posted on 09/25/2018 9:16:12 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Revel

Yes, it is pure propaganda.


102 posted on 09/25/2018 9:19:14 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: OddLane

She isn’t a psychiatrist.


103 posted on 09/25/2018 9:19:38 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I have zero sympathy for Ford. She created this mess out of nothing. Probably paid well to do it.


104 posted on 09/25/2018 9:20:23 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: palmer

True that.


105 posted on 09/25/2018 9:21:11 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: arrogantsob

She isn’t a psychiatrist.””

more like a psychiatrist’s patient?


106 posted on 09/25/2018 9:21:39 PM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
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To: Texas Fossil

I haven’t seen anything about this but can anyone tell me if visitors are going to be allowed in the gallery for this hearing? Based on what we saw the first couple of days of questioning, that could be a complete disaster. Would the Judiciary committee be so foolish as to allow spectators? I certainly hope not!


107 posted on 09/25/2018 9:27:30 PM PDT by luv2ski
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To: Texas Fossil

Maybe she was driving around trying to find the house where the attack happened.


108 posted on 09/25/2018 9:33:41 PM PDT by gcparent
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To: Texas Fossil

I just read that Ford works/worked for the company that makes the abortion pill RU486 and wrote at least eight scientific articles for the company. Now her involvement makes more sense. I pray that she be exposed and punished for trying to destroy a good man.
https://stream.org/christine-blasey-ford-abortion-profiteer?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Newsfeed&utm_term=Original%20Content&utm_content=Kavanaugh-9-25-18


109 posted on 09/25/2018 9:35:33 PM PDT by rimtop56 ("Our eyes are on you, Lord...")
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To: Texas Fossil

Question to Senator Grassley, who in the hell makes the rules? Do you make the rules or does Ms. Ford. It is your damn committee.


110 posted on 09/25/2018 9:36:17 PM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: cyclotic

She probably only heard it from Kavanaugh.


111 posted on 09/25/2018 9:37:41 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Texas Fossil

I do not think she will testify. If by chance she does she will have an “emotional breakdown” on cross by the Republican female lawyer and thus no longer able to answer questions due to her “fragile state” as a result of the heinous acttions of Kavenaugh 35 years ago.

This is a damn clown show. I am still betting on she will not testify.


112 posted on 09/25/2018 9:43:47 PM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: palmer

Well the Democrats on the committee will be also asking questions of Judge Kavanaugh so I am sure they will ask about Mark Judge.

The Woman who the republicans hired to ask questions will be doing so on behalf of the republican senators and again the Democrats are free to ask Judge Kavanaugh questions.

The creepy porn lawyer had sent some really nasty questions to the judicial committee and asked that they be asked to Kavanaugh I wonder if any democrat will ask him some of them.


113 posted on 09/25/2018 9:44:37 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Texas Fossil

NO! We, the People need to see it. All of it. Too bad if it traumatizes her. Stay home if she’s that scared and get checked into a mental facility. Enough already.


114 posted on 09/25/2018 9:45:19 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: M. Thatcher

Perhaps. Although, if she doesn’t show, that will be a definite win for her. It will leave a stain on Kavanaugh with questions unanswered and she can cry all the way home that the men Senators bullied her.


115 posted on 09/25/2018 9:49:52 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Texas Fossil

Oh I think she’ll absolutely show....this has been a well thought out, staged and planned attack. When you just consider this is a woman who has raised issue from clear back when she was 15 yrs old! So I’m not buying it anyway....

However the Dems will make certain this isn’t a one day event....this is going to go till the mid-terms oncce she’s seated...you can bet on it.


116 posted on 09/25/2018 10:14:43 PM PDT by caww
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To: Texas Fossil

Screw that. Subpoena her silly ass and force her to show up. I have never seen anything as retarded as the US Senate being jerked around so easily by some random silly slut.


117 posted on 09/25/2018 11:11:42 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: irishjuggler

Part of me thinks she won’t but it all depends how much money she was offered. I just heard on Fox that Soros paid over 200mln to anti-Kavanaugh rally organizers. Over $200 million!


118 posted on 09/25/2018 11:12:11 PM PDT by Wiosna298
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To: irishjuggler

Part of me thinks she won’t but it all depends how much money she was offered. I just heard on Fox that Soros paid over $ 200mln to anti-Kavanaugh rally organizers. That is a hell of a lot of money!


119 posted on 09/25/2018 11:12:11 PM PDT by Wiosna298
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To: Wiosna298

Does she think that money will make up for time spent in jail for lying, DONT know what the penalty is for perjury maybe it is enough money for her!!!


120 posted on 09/25/2018 11:19:37 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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