Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) wrote to the FBI last fall to alert them to the allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh written about in the New York Times this weekend — but the agency never followed up with the Yale grad who witnessed the alleged incident.
Cover up via inaction, who told the FBI to not do their jobs regarding Kavanaugh?
Three guesses and the first two don’t count??
No one expected trump to win. No one expected he would trash our country the way he has. No one thought a president would use the Justice Department as a cudgel against his political enemies.
Until now.
Now, it’s time for the House and Senate to make the Justice Department AN INDEPENDENT agency, one NOT under the control of a vicious, ignorant Executive.
That’s not how he operates. Nobody gave the direction for inaction because it was innately understood that action would not be acceptable.
I don’t know, but I’ll bet, eventually, it’ll get traced back to Barr, somehow. All roads end with him, don’t they.
Sessions… This was back pre-election.
Was there any rule that Coons couldn’t tell the public about the inaction of FBI at that time?
According to the WaPo article, Stier had wanted things to remain confidential, therefore Coons wrote to the FBI in private to have Stier interviewed. Which never happened.
The public DID know. The President told the FBI to do a ONE-WEEK check and to only investigate Dr. Blaisey Ford’s and Ms. Ramirez’ allegations. This was outside their purview.
As for the woman involved who said she does not remember anything, I am ‘sure’ she was jumping to come forward after what happened to Dr Blaisey Ford.
Slight correction-- her friends said she doesn’t remember it, she declined to be interviewed.
Critical difference.
Is this the same “deep state” that Trump is always going on about?
Okay, this is all but screaming for Stiers, at the very least, to come and testify. Chairman?
It’s too late to do anything now about the lying rapist on the Supreme Court. At this point he’s an emblem of years of Democratic failure to fight the Republican party with anything remotely resembling the partisan ruthlessness and smarts that were necessary. Re-enacting the rage and trauma we felt in 2016, over new allegations that are nowhere near as serious as the crimes against Dr Blasey Ford, will achieve nothing but our exhaustion and demoralization. The only blood we will draw on this issue will be our own.
This is another reason why dragging out the status quo until November 2020 won’t work. It’s simply emotionally impossible for the liberal base to stand by while these Republican criminals go about their business, reveling in our weakness. We’re going to end up going down sinkholes like Kavanaugh.
The dynamics between the FBI and Rump strike me as being quite strange. They do his bidding for him by not investigating what most likely could be a credible witness to a situation because they know that’s what their master wants. OTOH, Rump takes every chance he gets to attack them, calling them the " deep state" blah, blah. Just twisted
Although I agree with you, are you suggesting that Democrats do not pursue impeachment? Not being snarky, a genuine question. And why not have Stiers and others testify? Show the country just how disgusting the GOP can be, as the salaciousness of the subject matter will guarantee attention. The House can barely get anything done anyways, thanks to the Senate. Also, this is more about the “purview” of the “investigation.”
I was going to point that out, but you beat me to it. It is a very critical distinction and I expect from TPM writers!!!
It’s almost like the woman in question doesn’t want to be dragged into the spotlight, then have her allegations go uninvestigated, and then get mockery, death threats, and endless harassment from RWNJs.
Who wants to be the next Christine Blasey Ford? Step right up!
What is corruption?
Many definitions abound, but the intent is to turn the actions of established institutions contrary to their official mandate.
That goes for any institution.
We are on Trump’s turf any time this word emerges:
“misinformation”
Trump cares much less about whatever Kavanaugh is accused of as opposed to establishing a (post-truth) narrative in which the Kav’s accusers AND his defenders become analogous, in the public mind, to, say, Cardinals versus Yanks in the World Series.
Indeed. Who would recall a tiny little…