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Possibly. Mostly immaterial though.I agree, nothing to back her up and you cant run on that. But I do think something happened to her, based on the reputations of all concerned.The coat and the front page magazine articles of her wearing it makes me question her honesty to be quite frank. Her story never added up and she was eating up the publicity over it.I think they said they didnt recall...which is different. It does not mean she was lying...how much of a drunk fueled highschool party are these folks going to acuurately remember, including Ford? It doesnt mean she was lying.I dont think she lied, I think that is honestly what she thinks she remembered, something obviously seriously affected her.But the FBI doesn't investigate "allegations" for a nominee or any background check. It's supposed to go out and interview people. There were not a few people who were familiar with Kegs' drunken behavior with women. That was what really spurred on Ford and other women. It all should have been fully disclosed to the judiciary committee, but even Kegs was blindsided. And it took a democrat who at best has dementia to make the committee aware.Sure but that has nothing to do with this case, actually. The FBI really should not be doing much investigating here either as this was a 'gotcha' moment from the get go. There was nothing to 'investigate' before the hearing as allegations had not been made. Once those allegations had been made we had one account that was 30 years old, lacked a single corroborating witness, time of the incident, location of the incident, any real details that could have been useful and would not even be, afaik, in the jurisdiction of the FBI in the first place. It was well known from the get go that nothing would be found here as there was nothing to the allegation in the first place and the other allegations were far worse.To me the issue is really about future FBI background checks. The failure to adequately investigate so a president could choose to not nominate a person has come up before. Nixon twice nomiated men who should have been disqualified for CURRENT racist assocations. LBJ nominated a guy for CJ who, it was found, had outside income. That was actually made into more than one book.Seems to be the general idea.IOW, keep going until the correct result is obtained.I think the question is whether "someone" in the DoJ or above told the FBI not not investigate. Ford was not the only accuser. Personally, imo, what someone does in HS or undergraduate is immaterial, unless it was a felony, and unless there are ongoing allegations during a person's professional career, as there were in Thomas's case. Pols like Slick Willy and Trump and Cuomo are a little different because they are not lifetime appointments people don't directly vote upon. We can always vote out a pol if he/she becomes too toxic.
And that just whooshes right over the heads of those who think this needs to go further.
Thank you. What Bart, Squee, Tobin and Donkey Dong Doug are accused of doing was a felony. Plus they didn't interview dozens of other women. Rigged investigation.
The verdict is known. Proving it is just an inconvenient detail.
IF we don't want confirmation hearings to be circuses with "gotcha" moments we need the FBI to know what its supposed to investigate and for the FBI do do it. Consistently.
The background check did not fail here, it cannot find what is not there. This was a hit job from day one.
The system was broken. The question is why. The FBI's excuse was "we don't look that far back." But that's not correct. They've looked back into college years in the past. And that trail would have uncovered Kegger's behavior. He cleaned up his own act at some point. The whole circus was avoidable and should have been avoided.
Yet you keep ignoring Dr. Fords lies and the testimony of various people who were under oath in the interviews, in which NONE of them support Dr. Ford
Yet you complain about the FBI who had little material to build on....., Ford REFUSED to give the documents to them.....
You forget that her 4 named witnesses all say they were never there or knew about a sexual assault, she claims they were there that is LYING!
The pressure that seems to have been applied to one of her friends so that she would back her up makes me question her even more.
The entire thing just does not make sense. In the end, there was nothing to back her up.
It is rather problematic the center stage sexual impropriety seems to take on the political stage. Cuomo is caught literally concealing evidence in a federal investigation and no one cares because there are allegations of sexual misconduct. It makes no sense why we seem to value who politicians might be screwing more than what they are actually doing.