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Brett Kavanaugh and His Accuser Say They’re Willing to Testify

bver_hunter

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Seemingly you don't read or don't believe what others post. The FBI will interview people, transcribe the interviews and turn the whole thing over to the Senate Judiciary Committee, but they will not be linking any dots.
Given the unprecedented situation, the FBI could also employ novel tools, or create a "special" investigative team that exists across agency divisions, the former officials said.
While background checks typically take days of on-the-ground investigation, in a case this closely scrutinized, FBI leaders could decide to go full bore, assigning a slew of agents from multiple squads to wrap the probe in short time.
"They could just about drop everything else they're doing, every other background check for generals to get the next star, and cabinet secretaries and US attorneys," said Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director and senior CNN law enforcement analyst. "They could wrap everything. If they want to put 500 agents on this tomorrow they could do that."
The scope of the investigation that FBI agents will undertake now is unclear.

That is why I am saying that they could connect the dots whether the allegations made by the two ladies are credible. Do not give me the nonsense that they will not be "linking any dots", as you do not know the scope as yet!!
 

danmand

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Really, but despite this he has been a brilliant jurist for the past 12 years.
Brilliant enough to not oppose the Bush administrations policy on torture when on the Bush white house staff. Brilliant indeed!

PS: It is clear from your posts that you are not against heavy drinking, counselor. Have that perchance impacted your views on Cavanaugh?
 

mandrill

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Really, but despite this he has been a brilliant jurist for the past 12 years.

Also unpleasant, overly emotional, bitchy, partisan, arrogant and given to conspiracy theories. I would hate to appear before him if his demeanour at the Senate hearings is anything to go by.

I appreciate that it's a 50:50 he said / she said and he might be unfairly attacked, if he is the honest one and Ford is lying or remembering inaccurately. But he has a shitload to learn about grace under pressure, patience and humility.

I am very unimpressed with the guy and I have been avoiding the coverage and trying to keep a clear mind about it. But every time I see him speaking on the Net, he just strikes me as one entitled spiteful little fucker.
 

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Also unpleasant, overly emotional, bitchy, partisan, arrogant and given to conspiracy theories. I would hate to appear before him if his demeanour at the Senate hearings is anything to go by.

I appreciate that it's a 50:50 he said / she said and he might be unfairly attacked, if he is the honest one and Ford is lying or remembering inaccurately. But he has a shitload to learn about grace under pressure, patience and humility.

I am very unimpressed with the guy and I have been avoiding the coverage and trying to keep a clear mind about it. But every time I see him speaking on the Net, he just strikes me as one entitled spiteful little fucker.
Yup, well said.
His approach has been DARVO.

Even if he's innocent he doesn't have the temperament and his conspiracy theory rant should just disqualify him.
 

danmand

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Also unpleasant, overly emotional, bitchy, partisan, arrogant and given to conspiracy theories. I would hate to appear before him if his demeanour at the Senate hearings is anything to go by.

I appreciate that it's a 50:50 he said / she said and he might be unfairly attacked, if he is the honest one and Ford is lying or remembering inaccurately. But he has a shitload to learn about grace under pressure, patience and humility.

I am very unimpressed with the guy and I have been avoiding the coverage and trying to keep a clear mind about it. But every time I see him speaking on the Net, he just strikes me as one entitled spiteful little fucker.
In other words, a typical lawyer
 

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Given the unprecedented situation, the FBI could also employ novel tools, or create a "special" investigative team that exists across agency divisions, the former officials said.
While background checks typically take days of on-the-ground investigation, in a case this closely scrutinized, FBI leaders could decide to go full bore, assigning a slew of agents from multiple squads to wrap the probe in short time.
"They could just about drop everything else they're doing, every other background check for generals to get the next star, and cabinet secretaries and US attorneys," said Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director and senior CNN law enforcement analyst. "They could wrap everything. If they want to put 500 agents on this tomorrow they could do that."
The scope of the investigation that FBI agents will undertake now is unclear.

That is why I am saying that they could connect the dots whether the allegations made by the two ladies are credible. Do not give me the nonsense that they will not be "linking any dots", as you do not know the scope as yet!!
Anyone else find this humorous?
 

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Insidious Von

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Really, but despite this he has been a brilliant jurist for the past 12 years.
Who am I to question your profession Aardie, he probably is a brilliant jurist. But the strategist in me thinks his judgement is poor. He made two vey bad mistakes. He shouldn't have gone on FoxNews and claimed he was a virgin, that makes him look like he was desperate to shuck his greenhorn. The fact that she escaped reinforces that. And taking Trump's advice regarding his testimony smacks of poor judgement. Coming on like a raging fop makes him look undignified and weak to half the population. Does he not realize that Trump is only loyal to himself and wont hesitate to thrown him under a cement truck if it makes him look good?

And the biggest question, when he drinks, who does he think he is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BprKOz8P1Jg
 

Aardvark154

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Well enjoy Justice Barrett.


Of course there will some slight pleasure in seeing Margaret Atwood go into total meltdown.
 

oldjones

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I couldn't disagree with you more.
Kavanaugh has already been through 6 FBI investigations. He sat on the 2nd highest court in the land for 12 years. He had to go through an extensive background check.
The onus is on Blasey Ford to prove her allegations. Simple. She has no corroborative evidence. In fact she has 3 witnesses who are all on record as stating they don't recall any such event. She can't even name a date, time or place that this happened.
FBI investigation what a FARCE. There's literally nothing to investigate. Which is why the FBI has already stated that they didn't want to touch it.
But now here we are. Nothing is going to change. It will be just delayed a week and more taxpayer dollars will be sucked up. The media is lapping this up.

BTW did anyone see Sheila Jackson Lee pass an envelope to one of Blasey Ford's lawyers at the hearing?
I think you have it completely backwards on the onus thing: He's not the accused in a criminal trial; he's the applicant trying to impress the Hiring Committee at his job interview. It is all on him.

The only onus on Ford is to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. It was apparent she did, complete with signalling the gaps where she had no recall. The Committee has every right and reason to weigh partial facts and possible evasions, as well as attitudes and emotions, in determining its recommendation to the Senate about the fitness of the candidate for a lifetime appointment to the highest position in the Judicial Branch of the United States government.

Although it certainly would discredit their own high office and responsibility, it is also entirely proper under the Constitution, for them to decide for entirely partisan reasons, irrespective of actual merits. Exactly the same as any citizen voting in the privacy of their polling booth. If they pick him for no other reason than, "he's one of us and talks our language", then that's the rung the country must want to be stuck on.

And the standard it will have to live with, when deciding right and wrong.
 
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mandrill

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Well enjoy Justice Barrett.
Of course there will some slight pleasure in seeing Margaret Atwood go into total meltdown.

Don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched.

As a supporter of the party which has fucked up every legislative initiative it has attempted the last two years, aside from a ludicrous tax break for the wealthy, I wouldn't be optimistic that they can even accomplish appointing a USSC justice despite having control of the Senate and the WH. They're making a prime fuck-up of the current appointment procedure and it should have been a slam dunk.

Not only is the GOP corrupt and incompetent to a degree not seen outside the Third World or Post Soviet Russia, but the Dems are running circles around them at every opportunity.
 

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Don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched.
Given what has happened with 36 year old accusations emerging out of the woodwork, and being treated as absolutely true even though there is no corroboration. I will be very surprised, presuming Judge Kavanaugh is not confirmed, if the next SCUS nominee is not a woman. Further it is utter lunacy to expect the President not to nominate a judicial conservative.
 

oldjones

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Given what has happened with 36 year old accusations emerging out of the woodwork, and being treated as absolutely true even though there is no collaboration. I will be very surprised, presuming Judge Kavanaugh is not confirmed, if the next SCUS nominee is not a woman. Further it is utter lunacy to expect the President not to nominate a judicial conservative.
Corroboration?
 
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