"[Brett] Kavanaugh was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 6, 2018, on a vote of 50-48. New evidence released last week suggests that the razor-close vote was unduly influenced by a sham supplemental FBI investigation that was tightly cont...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Legum reports that the Trump White House strictly controlled which witnesses the FBI was authorized to interview and which leads the FBI could follow.

It specified the name of each witness the FBI was permitted to contact as part of its supplemental background investigation and, in some instances, specified lines of questioning.

#BrettKavanaugh #Trump #SupremeCourt #corruption #SexualAssault #women #FBI
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[timo21@mastodon.sdf.org]

@wdlindsy The head of the FBI needs to resign over the Kavanaugh investigations lack of proper police work.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

The FBI was not permitted by the Trump White House to interview those who came forward with information confirming the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez about Kavanaugh's sexual assaults on them.

The FBI forwarded the tips it collected from its tip line to the Trump White House, without any investigating them.

#BrettKavanaugh #Trump #SupremeCourt #corruption #SexualAssault #women #FBI
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Why has it taken so long for this cover-up to be exposed, Legum asks? Here's why"

"The Trump Administration repeatedly thwarted Senate investigators’ subsequent attempts to get to the bottom of how the supplemental background investigation was conducted."

#BrettKavanaugh #Trump #SupremeCourt #corruption #SexualAssault #women #FBI
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Brett Kavanaugh is a blight on the Supreme Court. His inclusion among the nine Justices diminishes the entire institution, makes a mockery of judicial impartiality, and is a metaphorical middle finger to every woman in the United States."

~ Greg Olear

#BrettKavanaugh #Trump #SupremeCourt #corruption #SexualAssault #women #FBI
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/travesty-justice-how-the-fbis-failure

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"One SCOTUS Justice credibly accused of sexual misconduct is too many (and look at what a corrupt piece of shit Clarence Thomas turned out to be); two such jurists on the high court feels like an intentional troll—a cruel, sick joke of the kind that would have amused recipients of Judge Kozinski’s gag emails."

#BrettKavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Trump #SupremeCourt #corruption #SexualAssault #women #FBI
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"And now, at long last, after six years of dogged pursuit of the facts by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, we find that the much-ballyhooed FBI investigation was a bunch of malarkey."

#BrettKavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Trump #SupremeCourt #corruption #SexualAssault #women #FBI
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[donray@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy

And let’s not forget the special cowardice and gullibility of Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who could have cast a crucial “no” vote.

[loran_hayden@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy SCOTUS (suggested edit) and he also drank a lot of beer and had his large gambling debts disappeared.

[strangeculprits@c.im]

@wdlindsy It's almost as absurd and hypocritical as the Renaissance popes with all their unacknowledged children

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@StrangeCulprits Certainly lots of historican examples of hypocritical absurdity come to mind here.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@loran_hayden Yes, all of that, too, for sure. When you say "suggested edit," do you mean you think it would be good to add #SCOTUS?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@donray Yes, when I read Legum saying that it's not clear whether senators knew they were endorsing a candidate when an active cover-up was in place or whether they were naive, I thought of her immediately. I personally do not think Collins is naive.

[loran_hayden@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy I mean you said he was elected to the Senate.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@timo21 Yes, these reports certainly do call into question the man's integrity and leadership.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@loran_hayden Thanks for clarifying. It's Judd Legum who's writing the comment above, though, not I.

[dave_cochran@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy y'don't.

fuckin.

say.

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@wdlindsy

At least 2 men leading our nation into deep religious fuckery are proven sexual predators. Rapists.
You're not gonna tell me the worst thing Clarabell the Taker ever did is stick his stanky pubes on a soda can.
Their fear of exposure for all they've done is part of why they're taking so much money to destroy your life right now.

[strangenoises@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy @Barbramon1 the vetting, or failure thereof is the excuse, now. as i recall, everyone pretty much knew this shit at the time; just too many people chose to ignore it.

[blinxeto@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

Throw him out! He perjured himself at least twice.